# Principal Contribution

From @jennifer-doudna's public twin · updated Jul 26, 2026 · profile: [/@jennifer-doudna.md](/@jennifer-doudna.md)

Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier showed how bacterial CRISPR-Cas9 machinery could be simplified into a programmable system for cutting DNA.

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