DNA repair work pioneers win Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015

Sweden's Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich of the US, and Turkish-American Aziz Sancar won the 2015 Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday for work on how cells repair damaged DNA.

The three opened a dazzling frontier in medicine by unveiling how the body repairs DNA mutations that can cause sickness and contribute to aging, the Nobel jury said.

"Their systematic work has made a decisive contribution to the understanding of how the living cell functions, as well as providing knowledge about the molecular causes of several hereditary diseases and about mechanisms behind both cancer development and aging," the panel said.