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2 scientists win Nobel chemistry prize for gene-editing tool

By Associated Press

Frenchwoman Emmanuelle Charpentier and American Jennifer A. Doudna came up with a method known as CRISPR-cas9 that can be used to change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with extremely high precision.

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In our news wrap Monday, some New York City schools will close Tuesday in areas where COVID-19 infections are on the rise. Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an order affecting 100 public and 200 private schools, citing a lack of testing…

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Three who discovered hepatitis C virus win Nobel Prize for medicine

By David Keyton, Frank Jordans, Associated Press

Announcing the prize in Stockholm, the Nobel Committee noted that the trio's work, dating back to the 1970s and 1980s, has helped saved millions of lives.

How the discovery of HIV led to a transatlantic research war

By Dr. Howard Markel

As the world struggles to constrain the new coronavirus, it's worth remembering the discovery of another deadly, global virus and a controversy that played out among the researchers who brought it to light.

How the economics Nobel laureates’ methods could help fight poverty in the U.S.

By Vincent Quan, Econofact

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer's experimental-based approach is being used to tackle poverty and other social issues in the U.S.

Why the 2019 Nobel Prizes in STEM struggled with diversity

By Gretchen Frazee

Esther Duflo is the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics in the award’s 50-year history. She's also the only woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize in the sciences this year.

Nobel awarded to 3 economists for work to alleviate poverty

By David Keyton, Jan M. Olsen, Associated Press

The Nobel Economics Prize was awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for their studies on poverty. Duflo is the second woman to win the economics prize.

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Ethiopian prime minister

By Mark Lewis, Elias Meseret, Associated Press

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was given the award for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighboring Eritrea.

2 Nobel literature prize winners expose Europe’s fault lines

By Jill Lawless, David Keyton, Associated Press

The two winners were a liberal Pole who has irked her country's conservative government and an Austrian accused by many liberals of being an apologist for Serbian war crimes.

Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke

By David Keyton, Associated Press

Two Nobel Prizes in literature were announced because the 2018 literature award was postponed following sex abuse allegations that rocked the Swedish Academy.