Nobel Prize

English 8 October 2024 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 to John J. HopfieldPrinceton University, NJ, USA Geoffrey HintonUniversity of Toronto, Canada “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks” They trained artificial neural networks using physics This year’s two Nobel Laureates in Physics have used…

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Gary Ruvkun receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2024. Gary Ruvkun after receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2024. From left: Princess Sofia of Sweden, Gary Ruvkun and Princess Madeleine of…

Interview, December 2024 Interview with the 2024 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine Victor Ambros on 6 December 2024 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Victor Ambros answers the following questions (the links below lead to a clip on YouTube): – How has your childhood influenced your scientific path? – Where does your passion…

Interview, December 2024 Interview with the 2024 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine Gary Ruvkun on 6 December 2024 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Gary Ruvkun answers the following questions (the links below lead to a clip on YouTube): – Where does your passion for science come from? – What fascinates you about…

Announcement of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine by Professor Thomas Perlmann, Secretary-General of the Nobel Assembly, on 7 October 2024. Interview about the awarded work “It’s a completely new physiological mechanism” Immediately after the announcement, Professor Olle Kämpe, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, was interviewed by freelance journalist…

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Scientific background For the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation The evolution of multicellular organisms from unicellular ancestors, where each cell-type acquired specialized functions, required increasingly sophisticated mechanisms of gene regulation. Besides transcriptional gene regulation mediated by DNA-binding factors acting on regulatory sequences, other forms of control systems emerged as organisms…