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STOCKHOLM-- Three scientists from Sweden, the U.S. and Turkey won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for showing how cells repair damaged DNA, work that can be used to develop new cancer ...

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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DURHAM N.C. (WTVD) -- Duke University professor Dr. Paul Modrich returned to his research lab on Monday after winning this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry. Modrich is one of two professors in the ...

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 ...

STOCKHOLM – Sweden's Tomas Lindahl, American Paul Modrich and U.S.-Turkish scientist Aziz Sancar won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for "mechanistic studies of DNA repair." The Royal ...

The three scientists share this year's chemistry prize "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair." Their work helped contribute, among other things, towards new treatments for cancer. Sweden's Tomas ...

Damage to your DNA is unavoidable. Every day our cells are bombarded by gene-splitting UV radiation or chemical carcinogens. Regular water inside our bodies can cause DNA damage. DNA damage is as ...

Angeline Modrich, nee Botica, 83, of Sun City, Arizona, formerly of Chicago, at rest Dec. 5, 2007. Beloved wife of the late Michael; loving mother of Kathleen (Louis) Fahrberger of Gilbert, Arizona, ...

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 ...

Dennis Alan Modrich, aged 79, passed away on March 24, 2024, in Scottsdale Arizona. He was born on August 9, 1944, in Chicago, Illinois. Dennis was the youngest of six children. Dennis is survived by ...