Physiology or Medicine

Award ceremony speech

  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…

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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…

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Advanced information Maintenance of chromosomes by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Drs. Elizabeth H Blackburn, Jack W Szostak and Carol W Greider for their discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase. They solved a long­standing fundamental problem in biology;…

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Swedish 2 oktober 2006 har idag beslutat att Nobelpriset i Fysiologi eller Medicin år 2006 gemensamt tilldelas Andrew Z. Fire och Craig C. Mello för deras upptäckt av “RNA-interferens – utsläckning av geners uttryck med dubbelsträngat RNA” Sammanfattning Årets Nobelpristagare i fysiologi eller medicin har upptäckt en mekanism av central betydelse för informationsflödet i cellen.…

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    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002               Male Female Programmed cell death eliminates unwanted structures during the development of the male and female inner reproductive organs. The human body consists of hundreds of cell types, all originating from the fertilized egg. During the embryonic and…

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005   The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Barry Marshall and Robin Warren for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease. Thanks to this pioneering discovery, peptic ulcer…

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Swedish Pressmeddelande 2009-10-05 har idag beslutat att Nobelpriset i Fysiologi eller Medicin år 2009 gemensamt tilldelas Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider och Jack W. Szostak för upptäckten av hur kromosomerna skyddas av telomerer och enzymet telomeras Årets Nobelpris går till tre forskare som har löst en av biologins stora gåtor: hur kromosomerna som innehåller…

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Ludwig Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht Kossel was born in Rostock on September 16, 1853. He was the eldest son of the merchant and Prussian consul Albrecht Kossel and his wife Clara, née Jeppe. He attended the secondary school in Rostock and went, in the autumn of 1872, to the newly founded University of Strassburg in…

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