Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm Jason Palmer.
And I'm Rosie Bloor.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
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But first, Genes are the building blocks for all living things.
By altering genetic code, you change an organism.
For decades, scientists have been trying to do just that.
But the techniques were often slow, expensive, or imprecise.
Thirteen years ago,
Jennifer Doudner and Emmanuel Chappontier found a way to borrow a form of molecular scissors from bacterial DNA.
These scissors allowed the scientists to cut out or paste in sections of DNA.
It meant they could change genes in highly specific and repeatable ways.
It was a huge step.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has today decided to award the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly to Emmanuel Chappontier and Jennifer Doudner for the development of a method for genome editing.
The system they uncovered, known as CRISPR, laid the foundations for a gene editing revolution.