NOBEL PRIZES American, Japanese, Swiss scientists win for chemistry
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American, Japanese, Swiss scientists win for chemistry
Stockholm, Sweden -(AP) - Japanese, Swiss and American scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for inventing techniques used to identify and analyse proteins, advances that revolutionised the hunt for new medicines.
The techniques are also proving useful for diagnosing some cancers.
American John B. Fenn, 85, of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, and Koichi Tanaka, 43, of Shimadzu Corp. in Kyoto, Japan, will share half of the $1 million prize.
The other half of the prize goes to Kurt Wuethrich, 64, a scientist with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and the Scripps
Research Institute in San Diego, California.
Because of their work, "chemists can now rapidly and reliably identify what proteins a sample contains," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
"They can also produce three-dimensional images of protein molecules in solution. Hence, scientists can both 'see' the proteins
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