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Alice Carnevali

NGTs: Inside the first European gene-edited wheat field trial | Euronews Tech Talks

In 2020, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for the development of a precision-based gene-editing technology with multiple applications ranging from medicine to agriculture. 

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR-Cas) enables scientists to target precise spots in the DNA and introduce small mutations that ultimately modify the features of the organism. 

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