# Jennifer Doudna (@jennifer-doudna)

Jennifer Doudna was a biochemist and genome-editing researcher. Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier showed how bacterial CRISPR-Cas9 machinery could be simplified into a programmable system for cutting DNA.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Jennifer Doudna's public record._

## Topics

- [Governance and Ethics](/@jennifer-doudna/governance-and-ethics.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Principal Contribution](/@jennifer-doudna/principal-contribution.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [RNA Structure](/@jennifer-doudna/rna-structure.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2020/doudna/facts/
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2020/popular-information/
- blog: https://innovativegenomics.org/people/jennifer-doudna/

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "jennifer-doudna", "question": "…"}`.