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French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier poses near a statue of Max Planck in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier and American Jennifer A. Doudna have won the Nobel Prize 2020 in chemistry for developing a method of genome editing likened to 'molecular scissors' that offer the promise of one day curing genetic diseases. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)