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Tomas Lindahl, Paul L. Modrich and Aziz Sancar were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for having mapped and explained how the cell repairs its DNA and safeguards its genetic ...

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 ...

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 ...

How does DNA, the delicate blueprint of life, keep from falling apart despite repeated assaults? On Wednesday, the Nobel Prize in chemistry went to three scientists who unraveled some of the secrets.

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.

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This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded jointly to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz Sancar for their work on the mechanistic studies of DNA repair. Their worked mapped at a ...

Our genetic material is constantly damaged. “As a rough estimate there are 10,000 DNA lesions per day per cell,” says Thomas Carell, who studies DNA repair at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, ...