Three scientists were jointly awarded this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing a way of 'snapping molecules together' that can be used to design better medicines.
STOCKHOLM — Three scientists were jointly awarded this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing a way of "snapping molecules together" that can be used to design better medicines.This year's Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded in equal parts to Americans Carolyn R. Bertozzi and K.
Americans Carolyn R. Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless and Danish scientist Morten Meldal were cited for their work on click chemistry and bioorthogonal reactions, which are used to make cancer drugs, map DNA and create materials that are tailored to a specific purpose. "The problem was to find good chemical buckles," he said. "They have to react with each other easily and specifically."
She found a way to make click chemistry work inside living organisms without disrupting them, establishing a new method known as bioorthogonal reactions. Such reactions are now used to explore cells, track biological processes and design experimental cancer drugs that work in a more targeted fashion."I'm still not entirely positive that it's real, but it's getting realer by the minute," she said.
Meldal started out as an engineer. "But I wanted to understand the world so I thought chemistry would give me the solutions," he told the AP.
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