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Jennifer Doudna -- Research Group

Caption: (From left) Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer Doudna, Martin Jinek, Krzysztof Chylinski and Ines Fonfara were part of an international team that discovered a programmable RNA structure for cutting DNA at specific sequences.

Credit: (Photo courtesy of Doudna, et. al)

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