Via Aeon, a video from Good Chemistry about Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier’s Nobel Prize winning CRISPR work. The first all-woman Nobel Prize awarded, ever.

Doudna was the subject of Walter Isaacson’s The Code Breaker, which was a really great read. The work she’s doing is, again, actually changing lives — it has been approved to treat two conditions in the UK and sickle cell disease in the US.

It does a pretty good job of describing how the CRISPR technology works (using overhead-projector-like overlays which are surprisingly effective).

The possibilities for this tech are amazing.