James Chen Wins Lasker Award
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•Scientist who discovered body's 'fire alarm' against invading bacteria wins $250,000 Lasker prize
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Biochemist Zhijian " James" Chen has won one of this year 's Lasker Awards .
Chen led work that led to the discovery of a protein that acts like a fire alarm in the body.
The protein, cyclic GMP -AMP synthase (cGAS) activates in response to DNA of foreign invaders.
cGAS detects DNA floating around in the fluid of a cell, which is usually a sign of infection.
Nicoletta Lanese is the health channel editor at Live Science .
She was previously a news editor and staff writer at the site.
Her work has appeared in The Scientist , Science News , the Mercury News , Mongabay and Stanford Medicine Magazine .
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