MARILYNN MARCHIONE, CHRISTINA LARSON and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press, 2 scientists win Nobel chemistry prize for gene-editing tool, ABC News announces town hall with Democratic nominee Joe Biden, 34 people connected to White House infected by COVID-19: Internal FEMA memo, In 25th Amendment bid, Pelosi mulls Trump's fitness to serve, FBI says it foiled plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Charpentier returned to Europe to establish her own research group as Associate Professor at The University of Vienna in Austria. “I am overwhelmed and deeply honoured to receive a prize of such high distinction and look forward to video-celebrating this exceptional award with my team members, colleagues, family and friends,” commented Emmanuelle Charpentier. These same features also call for extreme care in employing this novel technology, highlighting the need for continuous exchange of information between research scientists and policy makers for avoiding the risks involved in careless use of these unprecedented research tools. “I am truly amazed at the speed at which CRISPR research and applications in so many diverse areas of the life sciences have developed in recent years”, explains Emmanuelle Charpentier. Feng Zhang, the Broad scientist most known for that work, made no comment on the awards, but the Broad’s director, Eric Lander, messaged congratulations on Twitter to the winners. Between 2013 -2015, Charpentier was Head of the Department of Regulation in Infection Biology at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, and Professor at the Medical School of Hannover in Germany. This new understanding already enables world-wide researchers to rapidly model human disease genes in the laboratory, accelerating the search for new drug leads and opening new doors for the treatment of human genetic disorders. Dr. Carlsson received various Prizes and awards, among them the ‘Jahre’s Medical Prize in 1974. Scientists fear CRISPR will be misused to make “designer babies” by altering eggs, embryos or sperm — changes that can be passed on to future generations. These scientists had made outstanding contributions in brain physiology and physio-pathology. With the help of the CRISPR/Cas9 systems, the genomes of the most various organisms can be edited. The Nobel comes with a gold medal and 10 million kronor (more than $1.1 million), courtesy of a bequest left more than a century ago by the prize’s creator, Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. She shares the prize with Jennifer Doudna from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Back in the 2000’s, CRISPR-Cas was originally described as an adaptive immune system in bacteria and archaea to fight off viral attacks. In 2015, she was appointed Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society. In 1983, Barbara McClintock won the Nobel in medicine. The 2020 wolf prize in Medicine is awarded to: The Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Berlin, “for deciphering and repurposing the bacterial CRISPR/Cas9 immune system for genome editing.”. Letters address:  P.O.Box 398, Herzlia Bet 4610302, Israel Dr. Carlsson’s work has had an impact on basic as well as clinical brain research. More than 100 clinical trials are underway to study using CRISPR to treat inherited diseases, and “many are very promising,” according to Victor Dzau, president of the National Academy of Medicine. 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Emmanuelle Charpentier is awarded the Wolf Prize for engaging her experties in bacterial pathogens for deciphering and repurposing the bacterial CRISPR/Cas9 immune system and its pathogen defense role for genome editing which enables its use in all live organisms on earth. The prizes in literature, peace and economics will be awarded in the coming days. Gretchen Whitmer, FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015 file photo, Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, Germany, speaks on a panel at the National Academy of Sciences international summit on the safety and ethics of human gene editing in Washington. Professor Charpentier is a leading researcher in microbiology, genetics and biochemistry and now holds the post of director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, Germany. From 2015 to 2018, Charpentier was Director of the Department of Regulation in Infection Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, Germany. As they suggest, the system, which, in its natural form, consists of two RNA molecules and one protein molecule, can cleave the hereditary molecule DNA. Telephone:  972-9-955 7120 Since 2015, she has been a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, Germany. Tuesday's prize in physics honored breakthroughs in understanding black holes. Welcome The Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens (MPUSP) is an independent institute of the Max Planck Society. This new tool is now used in molecular biology laboratories around the world and has the potential to revolutionize medicine by paving the way to finding new forms of treatment for currently incurable diseases. “Being able to selectively edit genes means that you are playing God in a way,” said American Chemistry Society President Luis Echegoyen, a chemistry professor at the University of Texas El Paso. STOCKHOLM -- The Nobel Prize in chemistry went to two researchers Wednesday for a gene-editing tool that has revolutionized science by providing a way to alter DNA, the code of life — technology already being used to try to cure a host of diseases and raise better crops and livestock. The institute is located on the Campus Charité Mitte in Berlin. He has published almost 300 articles a considerable part of them dealing with the occurrence and functions of dopamine in brain. Email: office@wolffund.org.il. “I look forward to seeing new developments in this genome editing and engineering technology, particularly as a gene-based medicine to treat serious human diseases”. Dr. George Daley, dean of Harvard Medical School, said: “New technology often presents this dichotomy — there is immense potential for human benefit, especially for disease treatment, but also the risk of misapplication.". These “genetic scissors” can be used for targeting any gene in a cell in order to modify it. The Wolf Foundation Prize Committee in Medicine has decided that the Prize in Medicine for 1979 shall be equally shared by Roger W. Sperry, Oleh Hornykiewicz and Arvid Carlsson. Larson reported from Washington, Marchione from Milwaukee, and Keyton from Stockholm. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? The CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology has applications across many diverse fields of science, including human and veterinary medicine, agriculture and biotechnology. Its broad applicability, versatility and ease of use are the reasons that it has been so rapidly adopted by the scientific community. With this revolutionary technology, it is much easier to modify gene expression, to switch a gene “on” or “off,” or to change, repair, or remove genes. Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier (born 11 December 1968) is a French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics and biochemistry. “Many congratulations to Emmanuelle Charpentier on this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her breakthrough work in genome editing! She then continued her work in the US, at The Rockefeller University, New York University Langone Medical Center and the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine (all in New York) and at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (in Memphis). The Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology is located at the historical Campus of the Charité Clinic in Berlin. Three times a woman has won a Nobel in the sciences by herself; this is the first time an all-female team won a science prize. The 2020 Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing.” A panel at the Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm made the announcement Wednesday Oct. 7, 2020. She was then appointed Associate Professor at The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden at Umeå University in Sweden where she habilitated in the field of Medical Microbiology. Department Head and Scientific Director (MPIIB) and Honorary Professor (HU) Department of Regulation in Infection Biology (RIIB), Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (MPIIB), Berlin, Germany; Humboldt University (HU), Berlin, Germany; 2013-2015