201007 -- STOCKHOLM, Oct. 7, 2020 -- Laureates of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna, are seen on screen during the prize announcement in Stockholm, Sweden, on Oct. 7, 2020. The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to two scientists for their discovery on genome editing, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday. The prize went to Emmanuelle Charpentier with the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Germany and Jennifer A. Doudna from the University of California, Berkeley for the development of a method for genome editing, according to a press release from the academy. Photo by /Xinhua SWEDEN-STOCKHOLM-NOBEL PRIZE-CHEMISTRY WeixXuechao PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN