CRISPR Wins the Nobel Prize!! Science News 3.1

It's been a rough year full of rough news but today there was some news that made me smile! Early this morning it was announced that this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier for their work related to CRISPR.

I was so excited. Literally dancing around my apartment excited. So I dropped everything and spent the day making a video about it so that I can talk about it with you. Like the previous Science News videos, this is part one, talking about the news. Next Monday at 12pm PT/19:00 GMT I'll hold a livestream part two to answer all of your questions and talk to you about it.

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[rentristandelacruz]

Wow! Less than 10 years from the groundbreaking work to a Nobel prize.

[GoryWolf]

Big L for Virginijus Šikšnys. His publication wasn't even considered as he's from small unknown country. Quote from wiki:

"Publication of CRISPR-Cas

Since 2007 V. Šikšnys focused on mechanistic studies of CRISPR-Cas, the newly discovered bacterial antiviral systems, and was among the first to demonstrate programmable DNA cleavage by the Cas9 protein.[4][5][6][7] According to V.Šikšnys, his article was not even considered as serious by the editor board of the academic journal and was not sent to the reviewers, therefore the time needed to be recognized as first was lost.[8] Martin Schlak reported that Šikšnys submitted his article describing DNA cleavage by Cas9 to Cell Reports on April 18, 2012. After its rejection without peer review, he sent it to PNAS one month later, and it took several months for review and publication. In the meantime, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier had published their findings in Science where their findings were reviewed and accepted within two weeks.[9]"

[CarlaAnneQ]

I hope this tool be used for new discoveries and solve problems. I dont do anything work-related with biology or science but this gets me excited, too. I enjoy reading and learning more about it through science communicators like you. Thank you =)

[AnnSwansonWellness]

Well explained! Love the windshield wiper analogy. We need a video on what is in your freezer :)

[stevenbrown]

Great video. I’m looking forward to part two. Also, your enthusiasm is wonderful.

[Garcia-elf]

Sent this video to my mom, very well explained!

[dianamaeponce]

So proud of them! Soooo excited when i saw this pop out from your channel. Thanks @alexdainis 😊

[thany]

0:57 Of course they do. Let's be honest.

Well, maybe not a unicorn, but a pegasus at least then.

[kts]

It means so much to see ourselves in our role models. To see an approachable role model in our goal life is so wonderful. You are and will be one of those role models as an approachable science communicator. 100% agree.

[Fleshcut]

My chemistry prof always said that the Nobel Prize in chemistry is a second physics Nobel Prize because it's frequently won by physicists. Glad they mixed it up with some biology now :D haha

[AmarjeetKumar-gitj]

I inspired from your video. So thank you.

[adityabeedkar]

Namaste Alex!!! thanks for valuable inputs very helpful...

[andreytimashov]

This brilliant ladies absolutely deserved the Nobel Prize! Also a question: can targeted DNA methylation be used instead to turn off specific genes and get clues about their possible functions?

[TheFinalMB]

A new video!!! I’m so excited!!! WERE ALL EXCITED :):):):)

[kennethelliott]

When I first heard about the award I thought “hey, I now what CHRiSPR is, I saw a video that Alex did.” Thanks for the heads up.

[Seegalgalguntijak]

Alex, I have one question about CRISPR: There's a novel called "Change Agent" by the amazing SciFi author Daniel Suarez. It is about how someone had gotten infected with a viral agent that changed his DNA "in vivo" so that he took on the appearance of a totally different person. My question is: How likely is something like that to occur and take place in the future? How big is the danger of this technology being developed?

[nhlamulo_khoza]

I was so excited when I found out, I called my friends and family to let them know as if I personally know the scientists!! Such role models 😌

[max_bb]

Nice video I really need it for my Genetic engineering presentation.😊🙌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻

[sergei_gruntovsky]

Despite everything bad happening around, things like these make me really excited about the future. I want gene editing to be my retirement hobby in a few years. I want it to improve the quality and longevity of people's lives. And of course I want flying unicorn squirrels.

Also, we need to combat cancer on a whole new level if we want to travel to other worlds. So I'm very curious about the ways we can use CRISPR to treat it.

[joshuaj]

Ive been watching CRISPR for awhile, its amazing what can be done. I think most scientists have the communities best interest at heart. We have a chance to change humans forever and stop diseases and disabilities why would anyone stand in the way of true human progress.