(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 05 - The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Carolyn Bertozzi, Mortem Meldal, and Barry Sharpless for the development of techniques to engineer molecolebiological.
The Americans Carolyn Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless and the Danish Mortem Meldal equally divide the Nobel Prize for having pioneered the so-called 'snap chemistry', inaugurated about 20 years ago by Sharpless and which consists in the possibility of joining molecules more efficiently and in the same time simpler. .
A technique that, thanks to Bertozzi, has also been applied to biological molecules.
There are many applications, including those relating to green chemistry and high-precision cancer therapies.
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