Physiology or Medicine
Press release
Press release
NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1990 jointly to Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas for their discoveries concerning “organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease”. Summary This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or…
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Signal sequences
In 1980 Blobel proposed that newly made proteins are targeted to and imported into the various organelles within the cell by built-in signal sequences. The signals are short stretches of amino acids encoded by the gene specifying the protein. They can be located at either end of the protein, or somewhere internally.
moreChristiaan Eijkman – Biographical
Biographical
Christiaan Eijkman was born on August 11, 1858, at Nijkerk in Gelderland (The Netherlands), the seventh child of Christiaan Eijkman, the headmaster of a local school, and Johanna Alida Pool. A year later, in 1859, the Eijkman family moved to Zaandam, where his father was appointed head of a newly founded school for advanced elementary…
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Henrik Dam – Biographical
Biographical
Carl Peter Henrik Dam was born in Copenhagen on 21st February 1895, to Emil Dam, apothecary, and his wife Emilie (née Peterson), a teacher. The young man graduated in chemistry from the Polytechnic Institute, Copenhagen in 1920, and the same year was appointed instructor (assistant) in chemistry at the School of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine,…
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Nobel Laureates 2004
Documentary
Credits Production TWI: Narrator: Josette Simon Titles and Graphics: Kevin Cooney Editor: Gidon Benari Sound: Stuart Browne Researcher: Alex Gervin Production Manager: Kate Best Executive Producer: Rick Thomas Producer: Linda Daniel Camera: Sveriges Television AB – SVT Copyright Acknowledgements: Cell Press, an imprint of Elsevier Linda Buck Copyright © Nobel Media AB/TWI 2004
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