The News & Observer recognizes North Carolina residents who have made significant contributions in the last year and beyond. These people have made a difference in our region, state and elsewhere.

Leave your stereotypes at home and acknowledge the land you’re on at the upcoming all-Native comedy show at the Silver Spring Black Box Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland. “The Originals: All Native ...

STOCKHOLM-- Three scientists from Sweden, the U.S. and Turkey won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for showing how cells repair damaged DNA, work that can be used to develop new cancer ...

The News & Observer recognizes North Carolina residents who have made significant contributions in the last year and beyond. These people have made a difference in our region, state and elsewhere.

The three scientists share this year's chemistry prize "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair." Their work helped contribute, among other things, towards new treatments for cancer. Sweden's Tomas ...

STOCKHOLM – Sweden's Tomas Lindahl, American Paul Modrich and U.S.-Turkish scientist Aziz Sancar won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for "mechanistic studies of DNA repair." The Royal ...

Maya Ajmera, President & CEO of the Society for Science and Publisher of Science News, chatted with Paul Modrich, James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University Medical Center, ahead of ...

Mary J. Modrich, of Norwalk, California, age 55. Beloved daughter of George and Harriet Modrich; dear sister of Charles, Robert, Carol, Joseph, George, Geralyn, Anne, Theresa, Laura and John. Friends ...

Three scientists who helped figure out why all life doesn’t simply collapse in a pile of broken DNA won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Wednesday. Their findings underlie research into treatments for ...

Angeline Modrich, nee Botica, 83, of Sun City, Arizona, formerly of Chicago, at rest Dec. 5, 2007. Beloved wife of the late Michael; loving mother of Kathleen (Louis) Fahrberger of Gilbert, Arizona, ...

Dennis Alan Modrich, aged 79, passed away on March 24, 2024, in Scottsdale Arizona. He was born on August 9, 1944, in Chicago, Illinois. Dennis was the youngest of six children. Dennis is survived by ...

Marion June Modrich, 83, of Mauston, Wis., known for her generosity, kindness and compassion, was taken from our presence as she passed away on Dec. 15, 2011. She was born Marion Marcucci in Chicago, ...