Twelve Women Who Impacted Genetics

Twelve Women Who Impacted Genetics

1. and 2. Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on developing the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tools. This technology has limitless applications and researchers hope...
How Do the COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Work?

How Do the COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Work?

Pfizer and Moderna grabbed headlines, and ushered in hope, in announcing this month that each company has vaccines that preliminary data suggest being 90-94% effective in preventing COVID-19 infections. This news is a much-needed salve to a world that has surpassed...