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In June 2012, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier rocked the scientific community with their groundbreaking discovery published in Science. They unraveled the extraordinary mechanism of the CRISPR/Cas9 system, unveiling its immense potential for precise gene editing.
However, what often goes unnoticed is the remarkable story of Virginijus Šikšnys, a Lithuanian scientist and his team, who submitted a similar work just two months earlier, only to face rejection from the first journal they approached. This unforeseen setback caused their publication to be delayed by several months, trailing behind their counterparts.
Fast forward to 2020, a moment of triumph arrived when Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier were honored with the prestigious Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their pioneering work on CRISPR/Cas9.
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