DNA repair wins chemistry Nobel

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded for discoveries in DNA repair, the BBC reports. 

Tomas Lindahl and Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar were named as the winners on Wednesday morning at a news conference in Stockholm, Sweden.

Their work maps how cells repair damaged DNA - a process that is fundamental in biology.

The prize money of eight million Swedish kronor is divided among the winners.

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded on Tuesday to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald for their work on neutrinos.

"This year's prize is about the cell's toolbox for repairing DNA" said Goran Hansson, Secretary
General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.