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The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier for developing a groundbreaking yet simple way to edit DNA, the "blueprint" of living organisms.

A new Berlin production of Charpentier’s 1693 opera “Medee,” with direction by Peter Sellars and sets by Frank Gehry, offers vital perspective for our times.

On what would have been Callas’ 100th birthday, Dec. 2, the Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozená starred in the last of five performances at the Berlin State Opera of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s “Médée,” written a century before Cherubini’s opera.

It was ultimately produced in tandem with Charpentier’s “Médée” in Lyons, France, a few months after the Olympics.

For example, biochemists Jennifer Doudna at the University of California, Berkeley and Emmanuelle Charpentier at the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Berlin, won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry just eight years after their development of the CRISPR–Cas9 system as a genome-editing tool.