The Nobel Series Part II: Gene Expression
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The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to Emmanuelle Charpentier and  Jennifer Doudna for "for the development of a method for genome  editing”. Their work has markedly added to the toolbox available to  researchers in the life sciences and in my humble opinion, it is worth  talking about. To understand why this work is so important, we will need  to have some introductory episodes first and this here is part number II, where we will discuss how genetic information stored in DNA is transformed into biological functions and traits. I can now be reached on twitter under @ChemistryinEve1 , if you have feedback that you would like to share. Alternatively, you can send an email to [email protected] . Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_(biology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_expression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_dogma_of_molecular_biology https://www.thoughtco.com/dna-versus-rna-608191 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TATA_box https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_codon_table
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