Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Göran K. Hansson, ledamot av , ordförande i Nobelkommittén för fysiologi eller medicin, den 10 december 2006. Professor Göran K. Hansson presenterar Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin 2006 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Mina Damer och Herrar, Vi lever i informationsflödets epok. Informationen flödar över oss…

    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002               The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002 The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Sydney Brenner, Robert Horvitz and John Sulston for their discoveries concerning “genetic regulation…

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005 Contents: | | | |  |  |  | | || Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, web adapted by Nobel Web

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Andrew Zachary Fire was born on April 27, 1959 at Stanford University Hospital in Santa Clara County California. Spending most of his early years (until age 16) in nearby Sunnyvale, he attended the local public schools: Hollenbeck Elementary School (1964–1970), Mango Junior High School (1970–1972), and Fremont High School (1972–1975). Fire enrolled at University of…

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  Presentation Speech by Professor Peter Reichard, the Translation Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, What applies to bacteria also applies to elephants. This free quotation after the French Nobel prize winner, , illustrates with some exaggeration one important principle of biology: that of the identity of the fundamental life processes. Yet one…

RNA INTERFERENCE This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is shared by Professor Andrew Z. Fire at Stanford University, California, USA, and Professor Craig C. Mello at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, USA. They receive the prize for their discovery that double-stranded RNA triggers suppression of gene activity in a homology-dependent…