Right now all members of the Royal Academy of Science in the meeting. Just be more than 400 members vote on those proposed for the Nobel Prize in chemistry to get the price or not. To the last, a “dark horse” appear. Earliest at 11.45 today cabled the news over the world. As the Academy’s permanent secretary often just managed to reach the person or persons awarded the prize.
This year is especially exciting for us in Sweden . According to the American company Thomson Reuters is one of the hottest candidates to the French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier, visiting professor at Umeå University. It was also there that she, in a collaboration with Jennifer Doudna at the University of California, discovered a new way to cut and paste in the genes.
method raises hopes for gene therapy that can cure many serious diseases. Since 2012, the two scooped numerous awards. That their discovery is of noble character seem to all agree, but it might be premature as the team. The technology crispr / Cas9 is also subject to a patent dispute.
Another hot area is the lithium-ion battery. The men who made it possible, John Goodenough and Stanley Whittingham, are mentioned as possible laureates. Lithium-ion batteries available today in everything from electric cars and planes to mobile phones and computers and meets Alfred Nobel will reward discoveries “have been of great benefit to humanity.”
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