Physiology or Medicine

Interview

Interview, December 2019 Interview with the 2019 laureate in physiology or medicine Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe, 6 December 2019. Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): Did you always plan on studying medicine? What do you enjoy about medicine? How do you deal with failures? Did…

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Scientific Background How cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2019 is awarded to William Kaelin, Jr., Sir Peter Ratcliffe, and Gregg Semenza. The need for oxygen to sustain life has been understood since the onset of modern biology; but the molecular mechanisms underlying how cells adapt…

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Press release

English Press release 2019-10-07 has today decided to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr., Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability   SUMMARY Animals need oxygen for the conversion of food into useful…

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Press release

Swedish Pressmeddelande 2019-10-07 har idag beslutat att Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin år 2019 skall delas lika mellan William G. Kaelin Jr., Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe och Gregg L. Semenza för deras upptäckter av hur celler känner av och anpassar sig efter syretillgång   SAMMANFATTNING Djur behöver syre för att i sina celler omvandla föda…

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