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Scientific collaborations are precarious territory for women

Closed networks and ingrained biases can make women’s collaborations a balancing act.
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Nobel laureates Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier first met at a 2011 conference in Puerto Rico, where both gave talks about a then little-known biological system called CRISPR–Cas9, which bacteria use as an immune defence. They immediately hit it off. “She was coming to CRISPR from a very different perspective than I was,” Doudna says. “And I liked her.”

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Nature 605, 179-181 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01204-1

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  • Correction 03 May 2022: An earlier version of this article mislabelled the photograph of Luís Amaral; he is on the left. The text has been corrected.

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