Physiology or Medicine
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor T. Caspersson, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. One of the most striking features in the development of science during the past two decades is the rapid advance in the diverse fields of biology. Here the tempo of progress continues to…
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004 Combinatorial receptor codes The odorant receptor family is used in a combinatorial manner to detect odorants and encode their unique identities. Different odorants are detected by different combinations of receptors and thus have different receptor codes. These codes are translated by the brain into diverse odour…
morePrions – novel infectious agents differing from all other known pathogenic agents
Prions are simple proteins that are much smaller than viruses. They are unique since they lack a genome. All other known infectious agents contain genetic material. Bacteria are often surrounded by a strong protective cell wall and replicate through simple cell division. Fungi may cause infections of the mouth, throat, lungs, and skin. Parasites thrive…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Sven Gad, Member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Man, animals, plants, microorganisms, they are all preyed upon by viruses. Even bacteria have their own viruses, somewhat misleadingly called bacteriophages – “bacteria eaters”. These were discovered at the time of the…
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