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In the 119-year history of the Nobel Prize, only five women have won in the chemistry category. Now, two female scientists on Oct. 7 made history by being the first women to jointly win the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

Washington D.C. native Dr. Jennifer A. Doudna and Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier from France were awarded for their 2012 work with the gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9. Not only were they the first female scientists to receive the award together, but they also won without a male collaborator.

Their first paper, A programmable dual-RNA-guided DNA endonuclease in adaptive bacterial immunity, was published in 2012. Their research showed that CRISPR could be used to cut DNA in an artificial environment, such as a test tube or petri dish.

Now, eight years later, their written idea has come to life in the form of CRISPR-Cas9 and the technology has become more widespread.

CRISPR, which stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, was a major breakthrough for genome editing. The tool allows bacteria to use parts of DNA from invading viruses, which are in turn used to create DNA segments called CRISPR arrays.

These DNA segments, allow the bacteria to remember the viruses or any closely related ones, according to The US Library of Medicine.

If the viruses attack again, the bacteria produce RNA segments from the CRISPR arrays to target the viruses' DNA. The bacteria then use Cas9 or a similar enzyme to cut the DNA apart, which disables the virus.

Now, the technology is being employed in finding cures for genetic diseases. In fact, so far results show that CRISPR is working. In summer 2020, Victoria Gray became the first patient with sickle cell disease to undergo CRISPR editing, according to National Public Radio. They also reported that even post the gene editing procedure, Gray is thriving.

Additionally, Doudna and a team of researchers have developed a test using CRISPR that can be used to detect COVID-19 in only five minutes. This test could be useful for countries with a high number of coronavirus cases who do not have enough resources to test the entire population.

Also known as genetic scissors, the CRISPR gene-editing tool has been used for agricultural means as well. Plant researchers use the tool to change crops DNA, making them pest and drought resistant, according to Scientific American. If successful, this would in turn lead to an increase in crop production and food worldwide.

This tool, however, has also caused controversy. The science community and the world were shocked when scientist He Jiankui announced he had used CRISPR on human embryos to produce two twin girls.

Though he claims to have done so to disable the gene for HIV, there is no way to know how his actions will impact the rest of the girls genes. Chinese authorities have barred him from practicing medicine however, the damage could already be done to the girls DNA along with the perception of gene and stem cell science as a whole.

Regardless of the controversy surrounding the use of CRISPR, scientists are praising Doudna and Charpentier for the achievements their research has brought so far.

The ability to cut DNA where you want has revolutionized the life sciences. The genetic scissors were discovered 8 years ago, but have already benefited humankind greatly, said Pernilla Wittung Stafshede, a chemical biologist at the Chalmers University of Technology.

Doudna and Charpentier have not only given the world a means of rewriting DNA, but also have rewritten history by breaking the male streak of Nobel Prize in chemistry recipients.

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Shortly after the Carolina Panthers dropped their second straight game to open the season, cornerback Rasul Douglas reached out to head coach Matt Rhule and talked about what change needed to be made for this team to be successful.

Chemistry was almost non-existent, effort at times was questionable, and the will to win just didn't seem to be there. Being one of the most experienced players on the defense, Douglas saw the signs early on and knew that this trend could not continue if they wanted to win and win now.

The team held a meeting and just let everyone speak about who they are, what they like, their lifestyle, hobbies, family, where they come from and a variety of other things. This was to help eliminate chemistry being an issue on the field and so far, it has worked as the Panthers have rattled off three straight wins since this meeting took place.

"It was more about explaining whatever you felt on your heart to tell the guys about yourself," Douglas said. "Teddy [Bridgewater] got up there and talked about how his mom had cancer and just watching her go through that and her smiling and her being happy and her caring about him was bigger than anything. We also talked to one of the linemen where he said he had COVID and he couldn't be with his wife and his wife was pregnant and he couldn't be around her and the whole time he wasn't, he was thinking about the team. It was basically just expressing how we need to do it together and we need to know each other. If we are going to call each other a family, we've got to feel like family. From 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. I'm here. I go home, I get two hours and then I'm going back to sleep to get ready for here, so it's like if I'm going to be here with you all day, I need to know you. I need to know who you are, I need to know how you think, so when I'm on the field I want to play for you."

While the meeting may not be the one single turning point of the season, it has certainly paid off and you can see it firsthand on the field every Sunday. Defensive coordinator Phil Snow talked about the growth he has seen in the last month.

"I think this team is growing together right now. You've got to have some success too to have that happen and we're fortunate we've won three games in a row, but you can really see this group coming together on both sides of the football and special teams. It's fun to watch. When you get a little confidence, the confidence grows and so does everything else. It's just been fun to watch over the last month."

A lack of chemistry in football or any sport for that matter usually boils down to the players' negligence of wanting to form relationships with their teammates and understanding who they are as a person, not just a football player. These guys spend more time together than they do with their family, so if you have rock solid chemistry, you're going to get rock solid results. Unfortunately, the players were not afforded the opportunity to bond and get to know one another this offseason due to the pandemic. And even once players did make it to camp, it didn't just click right away as rookie defensive lineman Derrick Brown noted during Thursday's press conference.

"We weren't together for long and everybody kind of knew each other behind the IPad's. This year has been crazy, so we never got a chance to really get in here in the spring and early summer. Even my time coming in I really only got to meet a handful of guys at one time. We had to figure out us, we had to figure out the trust. The d-line and linebackers have to trust one another and the backend's got to trust us to be able to do our part and once we figured that out, now it seems like we're starting to play for one another more."

Head coach Matt Rhule has said time and time again about how this team doesn't have any egos and is a bunch that loves playing together. The more football they play, the better the chemistry will be and the better this team will be. The good thing is, the Panthers are 3-2 and are on a three-game winning streak while learning how to play alongside each other.

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MUSKEGON, MI A multinational chemical company will close a Muskegon Township facility within the next two years, citing a consolidation of production.

The Germany-based BASF announced Monday that it will close a herbicide production facility, located at 1740 Whitehall Road in Muskegon Township, by 2022.

The township facility, formerly a Bayer CropScience facility, produces glufosinate-ammonium (GA) for use as a non-selective herbicide. It has been in operation since 1975.

BASF is also shuttering a plant in Knapsack, Germany, and 100 employees are expected to lose their jobs as a result of the closure. A breakdown of how many of those are employed in the Muskegon-area facility was not available.

A formal timeline for the closure has not yet been determined, according to the release.

Muskegon Township Supervisor Jennifer Hodges told MLive that she had not been informed about the closure prior to being contacted by media.

She said the local plant employs about 70 people, and she has since been told the plant is expected to be closed by July 2021.

She added that the property could be desirable for other industrial use. The campus is owned by BASF Agricultural Solutions US LLC, and spans 387 acres, according to public records.

BASF Agricultural Solutions US LLC is listed as the property owner of 1740 Whitehall Road, which includes 16 buildings totaling nearly 184,000 square feet. Most of the buildings on the property were built in 1976, with one 51,000-square-foot manufacturing building added in 1997.

A representative for BASF did not immediately respond to MLives requests for comment.

Like many companies that depend on the automotive industries, BASF has seen declining profits this year. The company said it will lose 2.12 billion in the third quarter (about $2.48 billion), and sales have fallen about 5 percent compared to this quarter last year. Shares in the company are down as well, according to market reports.

But earnings have improved since the height of the pandemic, according to a trade publication for the chemical and engineering industries. All told, the company is expected to post sales of $68 billion, down from $69 billion posted last year.

Elsewhere in the Muskegon area, manufacturers tied to the automotive industry have also faced downturns -- and layoffs -- because of the coronavirus pandemic. For example, Howmet Aerospace, a major employer in Whitehall, laid off about a quarter of its workforce earlier this year, citing decreased demand from major automotive plants.

But auto parts manufacturer Hilite International has recently signaled intentions to expand in Whitehall, adding about 108 jobs, mostly entry-level, to the area.

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Hilite to expand auto parts manufacturing operations, create 100 jobs in Whitehall

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Jump in coronavirus cases causes anxiety for Muskegon County health director

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BASF chemical producer to halt Muskegon Township operations - MLive.com

The world is drowning in plastic. The sheer volume and variety of plastics on the market, and its persistence in nature, create significant risks for human and animal health and the survival of sensitive ecosystems.

To its credit, the Canadian government wants to start addressing the problem. Last week it released a scientific assessment of plastic pollution alongside a plan to manage it. Canada proposes regulating plastics as a toxic substance under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, and to ban outright the manufacture and import of many single-use plastics by 2021.

But the U.S.-based plastics industry is saying not so fast and invoking provisions of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). In late September, a coalition of U.S. industry associations representing chemicals, fossil fuels, food packaging and transportation wrote to Canadian Trade Minister Mary Ng, asserting Canadas plan to ban certain single-use plastics, set recycled-content requirements for plastic products and packaging, and develop standards for extended producer responsibility violates international trade obligations and the USMCA.

Threatening a trade dispute is a common scare tactic to discourage regulation. Still, the ink was barely dry on the USMCA before the plastics lobby seized on it to raise doubts about Canadas plastic pollution plan. Claiming the scientific assessment isnt based on sound science, and that regulators didnt use a risk-based approach or engage in regulatory cooperation discussions beforehand, the industry says Canadas plan is an unlawful trade barrier and must be stopped.

The devastating consequences of global plastic pollution are so well-established and significant that the United Nations urged action under the Basel Convention on hazardous waste. As the U.N. observes, Plastic accounts for around 10 percent of the total waste generated and constitutes approximately 90 percent of all trash floating on the ocean's surface, with 46,000 pieces of plastic per square mile. It is nearly impossible to clean the seas from plastic waste and microplastics. The USMCA itself requires Canada, Mexico and the U.S. to each take measures to prevent and reduce marine litter.

Yet the chemical lobby makes the claim not only that Canadas proposed measures limiting plastic waste and pollution are unsupported by science, but that they would undermine partnerships and progress against marine litter pursuant to international commitments. Apparently, the industry is using the promise of its future voluntary cooperation to postpone or bar more effective regulatory measures now relying on language in the USMCA to make its case.

Before the USMCA was approved by Canada, Mexico and the U.S., we warned the agreements regulatory cooperation provisions could provide opportunities for enhanced corporate meddling and an excuse to evade and delay regulations. A Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives report authored by Stuart Trew found even voluntary regulatory cooperation has helped multinational business interests weaken standards for rail safety, workplace hazard labeling and chemicals risk assessment. We worried that incorporating these provisions into an enforceable trade agreement would further undermine public protections.

Our fears were well-founded. Business interests have already cited these provisions to question Mexicos law requiring junk food warning labels. The salvo against Canadas plastics regulation is part of an international campaign to use trade agreements to limit controls on plastic exports and regulation. The New York Times documented that many of the lobby groups behind the letter to Canadas trade minister want to use a proposed U.S. trade agreement with Kenya to roll back the African nations 2017 ban on plastic bags and force Kenya to continue importing waste plastics. The story prompted a bipartisan group of 62 U.S. lawmakers to urge U.S. trade negotiators not to undermine Kenyas policies to regulate plastic products and wastes. This trade-based corporate strategy is crucial for the fossil fuel industry, which has pivoted hard into plastics in anticipation of a sharp drop in oil demand as countries try to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

All countries need the regulatory freedom to take the plastics crisis seriously. Expansive new language in the USMCA chips away at that freedom. Regardless of whether the oil, chemicals and plastics firms would have a winnable case against Canada, the USMCA offers new tools to strip public protections. Canada and Mexico are already facing the consequences of agreeing to corporate-written deregulatory text in the USMCA. The Trump administration is using the USMCA as a template for new trade deals. Other countries, including Kenya and the United Kingdom, should steer clear of U.S. demands for new regulatory restrictions in any trade deals resulting from current negotiations.

Ultimately, these measures will blow back on the U.S. as well. Future U.S. governments looking to rein in the fossil fuel sector and strengthen environmental protections may find themselves tangled in a trade dispute of their own making.

Sharon Treat is senior attorney at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, focused on international trade agreements and their intersection with environmental, food and public health policy.

Stuart Trew is senior researcher at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, based in Ottawa, ON.

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US chemical industry overreaches by invoking USMCA | TheHill - The Hill

In this second part of a two-episode series on the Nobel Prizes, we go into the Chemistry and Physics 2020 awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, for discovering one of gene technologys sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors.

Also read our explainer on the Chemistry Nobel 2020:

And for physics, British mathematician-physicist Roger Penrose received half of this years prize for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity, as the the Nobel Committee put it. German Reinhard Genzel and American Andrea Ghez received the second half of the prize for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy. We explain the science behind both awards.

Also read our explainer on the Physics Nobel 2020:

Guest: T.V. Venkateshwaran, Science Communicator, Senior Scientist at Vigyan Prasar, New Delhi.

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