"Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier were awarded the Japan Prize today for their invention of the revolutionary gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9, which has swept into research labs around the world and is already yielding new therapies for cancer and hereditary diseases."

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Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna after the announcement in Tokyo that they received the 2017 Japan Prize. Courtesy of the Japan Prize Foundation.