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For the first time ever, two women together have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry.  Emmanuelle Charpentier from France and American Jennifer Doudna will share the nearly one-million dollar prize.  Together they developed a method of genome editing likened to ‘molecular scissors’ that offers the promise of one day curing inherited diseases.  It can change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with extremely high precision.

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