The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has just been awarded. It rewards Emmanuelle Carpentier and Jennifer Doudna, one a French researcher and the other an American, for their invention of the CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing tool. This "Swiss army knife" of life-editing has generated extraordinary enthusiasm since its first appearance. Thousands of applications
PlusPerhaps it will be necessary to remember this day on Monday, October 8, 2018. It began with the publication of a 400-page paving stone: the report of the IPCC, the international organization that monitors our climate. Its verdict is a wake-up call: the climate is getting out of control and if nothing is done we are going to
PlusLe prix Nobel de Médecine 2017 a été décerné à des chercheurs qui ont passé leur vie à étudier notre horloge biologique. Nos vies sont régies par le temps ; nous utilisons le temps pour nous dire quoi faire. Mais le réveil qui nous réveille le matin ou la montre-bracelet
PlusThe string is big but the vast majority of the press and international observers pretended not to see it. It must be said that the headlines are raucous: 108 eminent Nobel Prize winners have taken up the pen to condemn Greenpeace's anti-GMO campaigns for "crime against humanity"! All
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