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Jennifer is an amazingly successful and brilliant person. But, let's not forget Emmanuelle Charpentier. She is the one who spent over a decade peering at the a
by hcknwscommenter 8y ago
Jennifer is an amazingly successful and brilliant person. But, let's not forget Emmanuelle Charpentier. She is the one who spent over a decade peering at the amazingly strange and esoteric pieces of the puzzle that when eventually pieced together became the story that we all now know as CRISPR. She persevered when the world scientific community yawned at her bizarrely focused "sequence gazing". Many thought she was just finding patterns where randomness/happenstance would guarantee such fake patterns would naturally occur if you looked hard enough. Jennifer and her group, to be sure, contributed a lot to realize the end result, but Dr. Charpentier's contributions were the necessary foundation.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoHaven't heard of her, so thanks a lot for bringing Dr. Charpentier's name forward! This only shows there's plenty more women that are unsung heroes of science to discover!
- billbrown 8y agoAnd let's not forget Virginijus Šikšnys either, who discovered CRISPR-Cas9 independently at the exact same time but whose paper got rejected repeatedly until it was finally published three months later than Doudna et al. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/prestigious-prize-overshadowed-crispr-researcher-wins-spotlight https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/prestigious-prize-ov...