See how the action and reaction unfolded as Tomas Lindahl,Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar shared the Nobel chemistry prize for their work showing how cells safeguard genetic information
12.31pm BSTWe’re bringing this live blog to and end now. Thanks for reading. See our latest story here. We’re back tomorrow for the literature prize. 12.28pm BST Professor Claes Gustafsson, a member of the Nobel assembly explains in the video below how the laureates’ work can attend in practice:There are now drugs being developed where one tries to utilise the fact that many cancer cells acquire a defect repair system already to start with so by inhibiting repair actually in the cancer cells you might net something that... will specifically murder the cancer cells. This is a very interesting concept that is currently being developed and I think there are a number of different pharmaceutical idnustries that are currently looking into this. And I think there are one or two drugs are already available that builds on this concept.
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Source: theguardian.com