However, this does not make Zhang Feng win the Nobel Prize, nor does it make him the leader of CRISPR in the scientific field, ranking third or fourth at most.
Because Zhang Feng was the first person to realize CRISPR editing genome in mammalian cells, but this technical concept was put forward by Doudna and Charpentier, and the most basic research was also done by them. In the face of the groundbreaking Nobel Prize, Zhang Feng may not be as good as Doudna and Charpentier in CRISPR.
Moreover, Zhang Feng was not the only earliest developer of mammalian cell CRISPR technology, nor was George Mcdonaldchurch, and even their papers were published in the same issue of Science.
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