Nobel Prize in Chemistry honors DNA research that could lead to new cancer treatments

Three scientists won the world's top science prize today, for their "mechanistic studies of DNA repair." Their work mapped how cells repair deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) to prevent damaging errors from appearing in genetic information.

Tomas Lindahl, Paul L. Modrich and Aziz Sancar today received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for having mapped and explained how the cell repairs its DNA and safeguards its genetic information, the New York Times reports.

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