The winners of the 2018 Kavli Prize In Nanoscience Are Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Virginijus Siksnys for pioneering work on Crispr-cas9, a bacterial immune mechanism, that could be transferred from one bacterium to another, and allows for incredible break throughs in gene editing for crops, animals, mosquitoes, and even humans. .
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Footage and images supplied by Novo Nordisk Foundation, Plos Media, University of California Berkeley, and UMEA Universitet .
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