Three scientists from Sweden, the US and Turkey win the Nobel Prize in chemistry for showing how cells repair damaged DNA, work that can be used to develop new cancer treatments.
Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl, American Paul Modrich and US-Turkish national Aziz Sancar share the 8 million Swedish kronor (about $960,000) award.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences says their work on DNA repair “has provided fundamental knowledge of how a living cell functions.” Their findings can be used for the development of new cancer treatments, among other things, the academy says.
Lindahl, 77, is an emeritus group leader at Francis Crick Institute and Emeritus director of Cancer Research UK at Clare Hall Laboratory in Britain; Modrich, born in 1946, is an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute and professor at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina; and Sancar, 69, is a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
— AP
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