Nobel Prize In Chemistry Goes To 3 Scientists Who Uncovered DNA Repair
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 winners slide ITT News Agency/ASSOCIATED PRESS A slide with the three winners of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry — Sweden's Tomas Lindahl, American Paul Modrich and U.S.-Turkish scientist Aziz Sancar — shown during the announcement ceremony October, 7, 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden. The wait is over for chemistry enthusiasts: today the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry prize was awarded to a trio of researchers, Tomas Lindahl of the Francis Crick Institute, Paul Modrich of Duke University and Aziz Sancar of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, for their mechanistic studies of of DNA repair. Once thought of as an extremely stable structure, DNA is actually under constant attack. It can undergo literally thousands of spontaneous and...