{"id":143983,"date":"2022-08-14T19:20:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T00:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/scientists-win-2015-nobel-prize-for-chemistry-for-work-on-dna-repair"},"modified":"2022-08-14T19:20:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T00:20:36","slug":"scientists-win-2015-nobel-prize-for-chemistry-for-work-on-dna-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/scientists-win-2015-nobel-prize-for-chemistry-for-work-on-dna-repair","title":{"rendered":"Scientists win 2015 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work on DNA repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-win-2015-nobel-prize-for-chemistry-for-work-on-dna-repair2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2015<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cTheir work has provided fundamental knowledge of how a living cell functions and is, for instance, used for the development of new cancer treatments,\u201d the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of alterations to a cell\u2019s genome occur every day due to spontaneous changes and damage by radiation, free radicals and carcinogenic substances \u2014 yet DNA remains astonishingly intact.<\/p>\n<p>To keep genetic materials from disintegrating, a range of molecular systems monitor and repair DNA, in processes that the three award-winning scientists helped map out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2015 \u201cTheir work has provided fundamental knowledge of how a living cell functions and is, for instance, used for the development of new cancer treatments,\u201d the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. Thousands of alterations to a cell\u2019s genome occur every day due to spontaneous changes and damage by radiation, free radicals and carcinogenic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}