The 2015 Nobel Prize for chemistry has been jointly awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.
BREAKING NEWS The 2015 #NobelPrize in Chemistry is awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar: pic.twitter.com/mlgE5R2ZFc
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 7, 2015
In making this announcement, Wednesday, October 7, 2015, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said:
[pull_quote_center]From one cell to another, from one generation to the next. The genetic information that governs how human beings are shaped has flowed through our bodies for hundreds of thousands of years. It is constantly subjected to assaults from the environment, yet it remains surprisingly intact. Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 for having mapped and explained how the cell repairs its DNA and safeguards the genetic information.[/pull_quote_center]
