# Scientific collaborations are precarious territory for women

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/scientific-collaborations-are-precarious-territory-for-women/
- Published: 2022-05-06T09:30:33-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo caption: Emmanuelle Charpentier (left) and Jennifer Doudna (right) won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry — the first all-female team to win a Nobel. Photo credit: Miguel Riopa/AFP/Getty. Article by Sara Reardon. Nature – May 3, 2022.  Closed networks and ingrained biases can make women’s collaborations a balancing act. Nobel laureates Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier first met at a 2011 conference in Puerto Rico, where both gave talks about a then little-known biological system called CRISPR–Cas9, which bacteria use as an immune defense. They immediately hit it off. “She was coming to CRISPR from a very different perspective than I was,” Doudna says. “And I liked her.” […] Click here to view original web page at www.nature.com