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Two women share this year's Chemistry Nobel Prize
© Hiroshi Nishimasu, F. Ann Ran, Patrick D. Hsu, Silvana Konermann, Soraya I. Shehata, Naoshi Dohmae, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Feng Zhang, and Osamu Nureki [CC BY-SA 3.0]
For the first time, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is shared by two women. Eight years ago, they published work on how to edit DNA by so-called genetic scissors, which allow precise changes to the DNA. The approach is used in medicine for new cancer therapies, for instance.
