Nishka Srivastava The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2020 was, in a historic first, shared by two women: Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna. They have revolutionised the life sciences and opened up avenues for treatment we could scarcely have imagined earlier, all with the gene-editing technology of CRISPR. What is CRISPR? CRISPR, shorthand for …
ABSTRACT The 2020 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice “for the discovery of Hepatitis C Virus” [1]. Hepatitis C is a type of liver inflammation caused by a bloodborne virus: Hepatitis C Virus, or HCV. It had eluded researchers for many years …
The Nobel Prize in Physics this year has been awarded to Sir Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez. Read on to find out why they were presented with this award. All their work is related to one of the most intriguing and mysterious objects in the Universe- black holes. Black holes are regions of …
