Barrangou awarded NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences
Rodolphe Barrangou, associate professor of Food Science at North Carolina State University, has won the National Academy of Sciences 2018 NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences for his discovery of the genetic mechanisms and proteins driving CRISPR systems and their applications in food and agriculture, including virus resistance in the yogurt starter culture Streptococcus thermophilus and with the potential for translational genome editing in other microbes, crop plants, and livestock.
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