Girl power: First ever women-only team to win a Nobel Science prize

French researcher in Microbiology, Genetics and Biochemistry Emmanuelle Charpentier (left) and US professor of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology, Jennifer Doudna are the first even women-only team to win a Nobel Chemistry Prize. Photo: AFP

Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and Jennifer Doudna of the United States on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for the gene-editing technique known as the CRISPR-Cas9 DNA snipping "scissors", the first time a Nobel science prize has gone to a women-only team.

Using the tool,"researchers can change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with extremely high precision," the Nobel jury said.