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This year's prize, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, that is.

It's about the cells toolbox for repairing DNA.

I'm Steve Merski, and this is the Scientific American Podcast Science Talk for October 7, 2015.

A bit before six this morning, Eastern Time.

I'm Geron Hansen, Secretary General of the Academy, and with me is the chairman of the

Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Professor Sarah Snoggerup Linze, and also Professor

Klaus Gustavson, member of the Nobel Committee. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

has decided to award the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, jointly to Thomas Lindahl, Paul

Modrich and Aziz Sanyar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.

77-year-old Thomas Lindell is at the Francis Crick Institute and Claire Hall Laboratory in the

UK.

69-year-old Paul Maudrick is at the Duke University School of Medicine, and Aziz Sankar,

also 69, is at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

What follows is an edited version of the announcement and press conference.

And now, Professor Sarah Snoggeruplinz, the chair of the Nobel Committee, will give

some introductory remarks. Sarah, please.

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