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Nobel Laureate finds 'elegant' explanation for DNA transcribing enzyme's high fidelity

Last month, Roger Kornberg of Stanford University won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his efforts to unravel the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription, in which enzymes give "voice" to DNA by copying it into the RNA molecules that serve as templates for protein in organisms from yeast to humans.

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