Q 01/05

The 2020 Nobel announcement summed up Doudna and Charpentier's CRISPR tool as "genetic" what?

A) Scissors

B) Glue

C) Tweezers

D) Needles

Answer · why

A) Scissors

Scissors: the tool cuts DNA at a spot the researcher chooses, and the rewriting happens when the cell repairs the break.

Q 02/05

The first medicine built on Doudna's CRISPR tool won approval in 2023 to treat which inherited disease?

A) Cystic fibrosis

B) Huntington's disease

C) Sickle cell disease

D) Haemophilia

Answer · why

C) Sickle cell disease

Sickle cell disease: the therapy, Casgevy, edits a patient's own blood stem cells so that they make more fetal haemoglobin, which keeps red blood cell...

Q 03/05

Doudna's 2020 Nobel Prize was awarded in which category?

A) Physiology or Medicine

B) Chemistry

C) Physics

D) Economic Sciences

Answer · why

B) Chemistry

Chemistry. Her phone was on silent, so she slept through the call from Sweden and learned she had won from a reporter who rang at 2:53 a.m. asking for...

Q 04/05

Which tycoon founded the medical institute that has backed Doudna since 1997?

A) J. Paul Getty

B) Howard Hughes

C) Conrad Hilton

D) Ray Kroc

Answer · why

B) Howard Hughes

Howard Hughes created the institute in 1953 and made his aircraft company its sole asset; when trustees sold Hughes Aircraft to General Motors in 1985...

Q 05/05

Doudna, a speechwriter's daughter, was born in 1964 in which city?

A) Sacramento, California

B) Boston, Massachusetts

C) Albany, New York

D) Washington, D.C.

Answer · why

D) Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., where her father wrote speeches for the military until he got the itch to teach: he took a doctorate in literature at Michigan and b...