DHAKA: Irwin Rose, a biochemist who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering a way that cells destroy unwanted proteins ‘a key for developing new cancer therapies ‘ has died.

He was 88.

Janet Wilson of the University of California, Irvine “where Rose was a researcher” said Rose died in his sleep Tuesday in Deerfield in Massachusetts, reports the Times of India.

Rose along with Israelis Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko discovered how plant and animal cells use a chemical ‘kiss-of-death’ to mark old and damaged proteins so they can be destroyed.

Rose did the Nobel work during his career at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia.

He became a UCI researcher after retiring in 1997.

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