STOCKHOLM-- Three scientists from Sweden, the U.S. and Turkey won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for showing how cells repair damaged DNA, work that can be used to develop new cancer ...

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The three scientists share this year's chemistry prize "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair." Their work helped contribute, among other things, towards new treatments for cancer. Sweden's Tomas ...

The News & Observer recognizes North Carolina residents who have made significant contributions in the last year and beyond. These people have made a difference in our region, state and elsewhere.

STOCKHOLM – Sweden's Tomas Lindahl, American Paul Modrich and U.S.-Turkish scientist Aziz Sancar won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for "mechanistic studies of DNA repair." The Royal ...

Maya Ajmera, President & CEO of the Society for Science and Publisher of Science News, chatted with Paul Modrich, James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University Medical Center, ahead of ...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 was awarded this morning to Tomas Lindahl of the Francis Crick Institute (England), Paul Modrich of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University, and Aziz ...

Three scientists who helped figure out why all life doesn’t simply collapse in a pile of broken DNA won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Wednesday. Their findings underlie research into treatments for ...

Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar honoured for mapping and explaining how cells repair their DNA and safeguard the genetic information The Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to Tomas ...