WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The three winners of this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry all developed new ways to make carbon atoms stick to one another -- a mundane-sounding process that in fact underlies the very basis of life.
The processes can be used to make new drugs -- notably cancer drugs based on the toxins produced by a Caribbean sea sponge -- but also to create electronics and a variety of other compounds.
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