2 Days in a Row! Scientist who grew up on Big Island shares Nobel Prize for chemistry

STOCKHOLM >> An American scientist who grew up on the Big Island shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry today with a French scientist for developing “molecular scissors” to edit genes, offering the promise of one day curing inherited diseases.

Working on opposite sides of the Atlantic, American Jennifer A. Doudna and Frenchwoman Emmanuelle Charpentier came up with a method known as CRISPR-cas9 that can be used to change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms. It was only the fourth time that a Nobel in the sciences was awarded exclusively to women, who have long received less recognition for their work than men in the prize’s 119-year history.

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