World class science comes to Bratislava next year

The 7th edition of the Starmus Science Festival will be held in Bratislava, Slovakia next year. Its organisers plan to bring along many well-known names from the world of science and culture, such as Sir Brian May or Dr Jane Goodall. Why is it important to make such outreach programmes for science? Zuzana Botiková spoke to its organisers.
 
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In 2020, French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentiere together with her American colleague, biochemist Jennifer Doudna, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. For the first time in the history of this award, two women within a single team shared this prize. They received the award for a molecular tool known as clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-Cas9. Their discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 in 2012 laid the foundation for gene editing, whereby researchers are able to make very specific changes to DNA sequences. In May 2023, Emanuelle Charpentiere visited Bratislava to hold a lecture, a discussion and also to invite people to attend the Starmus festival.
 
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