Kariko, Weissman win Nobel for mRNA Covid vaccines
- 02-Oct-2023
STOCKHOLM: Katalin Kariko of Hungary and Drew Weissman of the United States won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for Covid-19 vaccines. The pair, who had been tipped as favourites, were honoured for “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development […]
US duo win Nobel Medicine Prize for heat and touch work
- 04-Oct-2021
US scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on receptors for temperature and touch, the jury said. “The groundbreaking discoveries… by this year’s Nobel Prize laureates have allowed us to understand how heat, cold and mechanical force can initiate the nerve impulses that allow us to perceive […]
US, Japanese pair win Nobel Medicine Prize for cancer therapy
- 01-Oct-2018
STOCKHOLM: James P Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan won the 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize for research that has revolutionised the treatment of cancer, the jury said on Monday. The pair were honoured “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation,” the Nobel Assembly said. BREAKING NEWS The […]
US scientists’ trio wins Nobel Medicine Prize
- 02-Oct-2017
STOCKHOLM: US geneticists Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young were awarded the Nobel Medicine Prize Monday for shedding light on the biological clock that governs the sleep-wake cycles of most living things. The team’s work revealed the role of genes in setting the “circadian clock” which regulates sleep and eating patterns, hormones, […]
Japanese scientist wins Nobel medicine prize for work on ‘self-eating’ cells
- 03-Oct-2016
TOKYO: Japan’s Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology for his discovery of how cells break down and recycle their content, which could lead to a better understanding of diseases like cancer, Parkinson’s and type 2 diabetes. “Ohsumi’s discoveries led to a new paradigm in our understanding of how the cell […]