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Detailed explanation-1: -Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 for discovering one of gene technology’s sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors.

Detailed explanation-2: -2020. Emmanuelle Charpentier at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and Jennifer A. Doudna at the University of California, Berkeley, won the 2020 Nobel Prize for chemistry for the development of the CRISPR-Cas9 method for genome editing.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 was awarded jointly to Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”