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31 May 2018
Update 31 May 2018
Update 04 June 2018

Million-dollar Kavli prize recognizes scientist scooped on CRISPR

Award goes to biochemists Virginijus Siksnys, whose lab independently developed the gene-editing tool, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna.

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CRISPR has hauled in yet another big science award, and this time the recognition includes a scientist whose contribution has sometimes been overlooked.

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Nature 558, 17-18 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05308-5

Additional reporting by Davide Castelvecchi

Updates & Corrections

Update 31 May 2018: This story has been updated to include comments from Rotem Sorek, Dana Carroll and George Church, as well as to highlight Feng Zhang's contributions to CRISPR gene-editing.
Update 04 June 2018: This story has been updated to include comment from Virginijus Siksnys.

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