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Nobel-worthy protein repair
mechanisms

In 2015, for the first time a Turkish scientist, Prof. Dr. Az-
iz Sancar won the Nobel Prize for chemistry. He was awarded
this important accolade for showing the working mechanism
of ‘nucleotide excision repair’ enzymes, proteins used to repair
mutations in the DNA caused by ultraviolet light. As a result of
these studies, new medications may be developed to treat dis-
eases such as skin cancer by contributing to healthier opera-
tion of proteins in charge of repairing DNA. Professor Sancar

has researched this mechanism for almost 40 years. In other
words, these molecular structures, with their astonishing fea-
tures, took 40 years to reveal their beauties. A Nobel award
should make its owner very proud, but the proteins that are
studied should be given a standing ovation. They are the ones
that do the real job and, due to the help of the scientists, we are
able to witness ever more closely the Supreme Being of our

Lord, as Almighty Lord has created the entirety of proteins and
everything out of nothing.

Antibodies: Proteins That Protect Your
Body from Foreign Substances

Living things are so delicate that the slightest change in the
systems that maintain life, or the entry of a microbe no larger
than a billionth of a meter, may cause severe diseases. So how
can such a delicate system be protected from the microbes that

are all around us?
In the body of every living thing is a defense team that
stands ready to protect it from harmful substances. Indeed, this
immune system represents the largest army in the world today.
Of the 100 trillion or so cells in the human body, a large part