Nobel prize for chemistry: Lindahl, Modrich and Sancar win for DNA research

[Master Disaster]

Not exactly tech but still science.

The Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for their research into the mechanisms that cells use to repair DNA.

The three scientists, from Sweden, the USA and Turkey respectively, received an equal share of the prestigious 8m Swedish kronor (£631,000) award for “mechanistic studies of DNA repair”. Their research mapped and explained how the cell repairs its DNA in order to prevent errors occurring in genetic information.

Announcing the prize in Stockholm, Göran K Hansson, the secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said: “This year’s prize about the cell’s tool box for repairing DNA”.

Last year’s chemistry prize went to Stefan Hell of Germany and Americans Eric Betzig and William Moerner for finding ways to make microscopes more powerful than previously thought possible.

Only four women have won a chemistry Nobel, including Marie Curie (who also won the physics prize) and Ada Yonath, who was the last female winner in 2009. One person, Frederick Sanger, has won the award twice.

The Nobel in medicine or physiology was awarded on Monday to Tu Youyou, William Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura for advances that led to treatments for diseases caused by parasites, including malaria. On Tuesday, Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald won the physics prize for their work on subatomic particles called neutrinos.

The winners of the literature and peace prizes are to be announced later this week. The economics prize will be announced on Monday 12 October.

Cool stuff, wonder exactly what it is they researched?

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[GoldSrc]

It's cool to see that people are still sciencing.

A year ago some Japanese dudes got a Nobel prize for the blue LED.