Physiology or Medicine

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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…

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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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Award ceremony speech

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Rune Toftgård, ledamot av , 10 December 2009 Professor Rune Toftgård presenterar Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin 2009 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina Damer och Herrar, Varje människa med alla olika celltyper och vävnader utvecklas från en första befruktad äggcell genom upprepade celldelningar. Den kompletta…

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