Two Female scientists won the Nobel Prize Award in Chemistry yesterday for creating genetic ‘scissors’ that can rewrite the code of life, making new cancer therapies more easier.
Oyogist.com reports that the two women, Emmanuelle Charpentier, and American Jennifer Doudna won SEK 10 million (roughly Rs. 8 crores) prize for developing the CRISPR/Cas9 Scissors tool to edit the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with precision.
The two female scientists, Charpentier and Doudna, became the sixth and seventh women to win a Nobel for chemistry, joining Marie Curie, who won in 1911, and more recently, Frances Arnold, in 2018.
