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by mazugrin2 965 days ago
I think it goes something like this: Doudna, et. al. were the first to discover and describe CRISPR in nature. Zhang, et. al. were the first to successfully develop ways to edit genomes with it.
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Mojica is generally considered the "discoverer of CRISPR". Douda and Charpentier took that knowledge and made a specific genome editing system based on bacterial enzymes (Cas9) and demonstrated it working in bacteria. Zhang is generally considered the person who made it work in eukaryotes.