Nobel chemistry prize awarded to 3 for attaching molecules

By Associated Press

Oct 05, 2022 6:21 pm

STOCKHOLM: This year's Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded in equal parts to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless for developing way of 'snapping molecules together' that can be used to design medicines.

Their work, known as click chemistry and bioorthogonal reactions, is used to make cancer drugs, map DNA and create materials that are tailored to a specific purpose.

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