Umeå researchers behind the year’s biggest discovery – Vasterbotten Courier

Umeå Gens Axen crispr, discovered by Umeå researcher Emmanuelle Charpentier, is the year’s most significant scientific breakthroughs according to the journal Science.

Gens Axen, which allows researchers to an inexpensive, simple and accurate way to cut up the DNA and replace genes exactly where they want, have revolutionized biochemistry.

The discovery has previously received several prices and tipped as a Nobel Prize winner, and now, therefore, also the Science appointed’s ears crispr the biggest scientific breakthrough 2016 DN writes about having summarized list of the journal.

Emamanuelle Charpentier at Umeå University made the discovery along with the American, Jennifer Doudna at Berkeley in California.