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Nature 443, 615 (12 October 2006) | doi:10.1038/443615a; Published online 11 October 2006

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Nobel prize blurs boundaries

Katharine Sanderson

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"But is it chemistry?" ask chemists.

At first glance it seems that this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry has gone to a biologist. Roger Kornberg at Stanford University, California, won the prize for unravelling the mysteries of transcription — getting information out of DNA and into proteins via RNA.