The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015
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Prize Announcement
Announcement of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 7 October 2015.
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Interview
Immediately after the announcement, Professor Claes Gustafsson, Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, was interviewed by freelance journalist Joanna Rose regarding the 2015 Chemistry Prize.
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Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl found that DNA molecules decay too quickly for life, or evolution, to be sustainable. This led to the discovery of , a cellular mechanism that repairs damaged DNA by removing erroneous sections and replacing them.

Turkish  Aziz Sancar mapped , a DNA repair mechanism that targets larger-scale damage caused by  and .

US professor of  Paul Modrich showed how errors caused during  are usually rectified.  increases the precision of DNA replication when  divide.

The prize is shared 1/3rd to each scientist.