The microbiologist spent years moving labs and relishing solitude. Then her work on gene-editing thrust her into the scientific spotlight.
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Abbott, A. The quiet revolutionary: How the co-discovery of CRISPR explosively changed Emmanuelle Charpentier’s life. Nature 532, 432–434 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/532432a
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