2012 – Nobel Prize for medicine awarded to Gurdon and Yamanaka for stem cell discoveries
[By Staff Reporters]
British scientist John Gurdon and Japanese researcher Shinya Yamanaka were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine yesterday, for experiments separated by nearly half a century.
In the words of the selection committee, their work … “revolutionaized our understanding of how cells and organisms develop.”
Official announcement: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2012/press.html
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And now … physics
A French-American duo shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics today for inventing methods to observe the bizarre properties of the quantum world — research that has led to the construction of extremely precise clocks and helped scientists take the first steps toward building superfast computers.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49339942/ns/technology_and_science-science
The winners were Serge Haroche of France, and American David Wineland, who opened the door to new experiments in quantum physics by showing how to observe individual quantum particles without destroying them.
Hope Rachel Hetico RN MHA
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And Now in Chemistry
Americans Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka won the 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry today for studies of protein receptors that let body cells sense and respond to outside signals.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49354751/ns/world_news-europe/
Such studies are key for developing better drugs.
Hope Rachel Hetico RN MHA
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Chemistry Nobel Prize
Robert J. Lefkowitz MD, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator who has spent his entire 39-year research career at the Duke University Medical Center was recented awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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STOCKHOLM (AP)
Two American scholars were awarded the Nobel economics prize today for studies on the match-making that takes place when doctors are coupled up with hospitals, students with schools and human organs with transplant recipients.
http://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=AP&date=20121015&id=15669685
Hope Rachel Hetico RN MHA
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Nobel Winners for 2013
Americans James Rothman and Randy Schekman and German-born researcher Thomas Suedhof just won the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries on how hormones, enzymes and other key substances are transported within cells.
http://news.msn.com/world/2-americans-german-win-nobel-medicine-prize
Hope Rachel Hetico RN MHA
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MEDICINE 2014
American-British scientist John O’Keefe and Norwegians May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser won the 2014 Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering the brain’s “inner GPS” that makes it possible to orient ourselves in space and help understand diseases like Alzheimer’s, the award-giving body just announced.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nobel-prize-for-medicine-goes-to-discoverers-of-brain’s-inner-gps-system/ar-BB7Neuw
Hope Rachel Hetico RN MHA
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The Traveling Nobel
What It’s Like to Carry Your Nobel Prize through Airport Security?
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/10/10/nobel-prize-airport-security/
Interesting.
Brian
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Discoverer of DNA Forced to Sell His Nobel Prize
Dr. James Watson, the famed molecular biologist and co-discoverer of DNA, is putting his Nobel Prize up for auction.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/discoverer-of-dna-forced-to-sell-his-nobel-prize/ar-BBgdb6h?ocid=iehp
This sad final chapter to his career traces back to racial remarks he made in 2007, which led to his fall from scientific grace.
And, it SOLD!
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/scientists-nobel-medal-fetches-dollar475-mn-at-auction/ar-BBglz4y?ocid=iehp
Jane
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Russian buys Watson’s Nobel to give it back
Jane – Russia’s richest man says he has bought James D. Watson’s Nobel Prize medal at Christie’s in order to return it to the scientist.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-buys-watsons-nobel-to-give-it-back/ar-BBgzvD4?ocid=iehp
Harvey
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3 share Nobel medicine prize in 2015 for new tools to kill parasites
Three scientists from Ireland, Japan and China just won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering drugs against malaria and other parasitic diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people every year.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/3-share-nobel-medicine-prize-for-new-tools-to-kill-parasites/ar-AAf6Ohv?ocid=U348DHP
Congrats to all.
Dr. David E. Marcinko MBA
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STOCKHOLM (AP)
Japanese biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi just won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries on how cells break down and recycle content, a garbage disposal system that scientists hope to harness in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer’s and other diseases.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nobel-prize-for-japanese-who-unraveled-cell-recycling-system/ar-BBwVBZj?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=U348DHP
Dr. David E. Marcinko MBA
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2019 Update in Medicine
https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2019/10/07/johns-hopkins-medicine-professor-wins-nobel-prize-in-physiology-or-medicine/
Ann Miller RN MHA
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2020
2020 Medicine Laureate Michael Houghton was happy and excited to receive his Nobel Prize medal and diploma at his home in Danville, outside of San Francisco.
Houghton shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus.”
Learn more about Houghton: https://bit.ly/2K25pra
Dr. David E. Marcinko MBA
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10th Nobel medal has been delivered to its rightful owner!
2020 Medicine Laureate Charles Rice received his Nobel Prize at the Residence of the Swedish Consul General in New York. Rice was awarded the Medicine Prize “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus.”
Chase
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Our second Nobel Prize medal and diploma has been delivered!
Emmanuelle Charpentier was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on CRISPR/Cas9, a tool used to edit genomes.
Her prize was presented to her this evening in Berlin. Come back tomorrow to see her Nobel Lecture.
More about Charpentier: https://bit.ly/39S2xYG
Dr. David E. Marcinko MBA
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10/04/2021
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two US scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine today for their discoveries into how the human body perceives temperature and touch, revelations that could lead to new ways of treating pain or even heart disease.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/2-win-medicine-nobel-for-showing-how-we-react-to-heat-touch/ar-AAP75qd?li=BBnbfcL
CONGRATS.
Dr. David E. Marcinko MBA
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NOBEL 2022
Swedish geneticist wins 2022 Nobel in Physiology or Medicine
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/swedish-geneticist-svante-paabo-wins-nobel-prize-for-medicine-for-discovery-that-humans-procreated-with-neanderthals/ar-AA12wRG7?cvid=922cc7fbdf884b3089e6c27e8639fe7f
DEM
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2023 Medicine
Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 that were critical in slowing the pandemic — technology that’s also being studied to fight cancer and other diseases.
Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó and American Drew Weissman were cited for contributing “to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health,” according to the panel that awarded the prize in Stockholm.
Congratulations!
Dr. David E, Marcinko MBA
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