Cancer patients could now hope to live longer as scientists have achieved some significant steps in the fight against the deadly disease. The expectation came through the announcement the names of three scientists who were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this year. The scientists won the Nobel for “mechanistic studies of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) repair." Their work mapped how cells repair DNA to prevent damaging errors from appearing in genetic information. In most forms of cancer, one or more of these ‘repair systems’ is broken. "Their work has provided fundamental knowledge of how a living cell functions and is, for instance, used for the development of new cancer treatments," added the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, according to medical sources.
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