Linda at San Simeon
The latest Nobel Prize for chemistry has gone to three guys
who made fundamental contributions to the biology of DNA – specifically,
how it manages to survive in the real world.
As diligent readers of this blog you already know that a considerable
amount of energy is being and has been expended in figuring out how to inhibit
DNA repair (and thus hasten death) in cancer cells. Well, these three lucky, diligent and
super-smart gentlemen have helped lay the foundation for this research. Here I a short, readable NY Times article on
the subject. Read it.
More on the subject of DNA repair. Clear, easy, and fun:
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