Aziz Sancar (US), Tomas Lindahl (United Kingdom) and Paul Modrich (US) have jointly won 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.They has been chosen for their research on mechanistic studies of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) repair by Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences .
Their work has given application of living cell for the development of new cancer treatments and fundamental knowledge of functioning of living cell functions .
Aziz Sancar: He is from the University of North Carolina, US.He has mapped Nucleotide Excision Repair (NER) which is the mechanism in which cells repair Ultra Violet (UV) damage to DNA.
Tomas Lindahl: He is from the Francis Crick Institute,London .He has successfully demonstrated that DNA decays at a rate that ought to have made the evolution of life on Earth impossible.
Paul Modrich: He has successfully demonstrated how the cell corrects wrongs that occur when DNA is replicated during cell division. He is from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University School of Medicine, UK.
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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