Nobel Prize

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…

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;…

Advanced information Human in vitro fertilization The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Dr. Robert G. Edwards for the development of human in vitro fertilization (IVF), a medical advance that represents a paradigm shift in the treatment of many types of infertility. The inability to conceive a child is a reproductive…

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