Crispr-Cas9 method and nobel
My guess is that some people (likely Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Feng Zhang) will eventually be awarded a Nobel Prize for the discovery of CRISPR and the development of its applications for genome editing, because it really is a major advance. But for now, the University of California Berkeley and the Broad Institute are still legally fighting over patent conflicts, and the patent situation worldwide is generally complicated. I think this is a possible reason why the Nobel committee decided to wait.