Nobel prize for chemistry is awarded for mapping how cells repair their DNA – as it happened

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

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Professor Claes Gustafsson, a member of the Nobel assembly explains in the video below how the laureates' work can help in practice:

There are now drugs being developed where one tries to utilise the fact that many cancer cells have a defect repair system already to begin with so by inhibiting repair actually in the cancer cells you might get something that... will specifically kill 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.

Interview with professor Claes Gustafsson regarding the 2015 #NobelPrize in Chemistry http://t.co/UjLvvXVOED