{"id":3539,"date":"2021-09-08T22:27:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T20:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.academicsatrisk.org\/?p=3539"},"modified":"2024-10-03T20:05:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T18:05:13","slug":"happy-birthday-to-nobel-prize-winner-aziz-sancar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.academicsatrisk.org\/?p=3539","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday to Nobel Prize winner Aziz Sancar"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"modern-quote full\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Dr. Aziz Sancar, was born on September 8, 1946 in Mardin-Turkey, is a Turkish molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian clock, which mechanistic discoveries underlying a cellular process known as nucleotide excision repair, whereby cells correct errors in DNA that arise as a result of exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light or certain mutation-inducing chemical. 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