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Category: Nobel Prize
The prize will be shared equally between Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz, and Ada Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome."
Posted on: October 7, 2009 12:02 PM, by Nick Anthis • 6 Comments •
Category: Nobel Prize
Three Americans, Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak, win the prize for the discovery of telomeres and telomerase.
Posted on: October 5, 2009 11:21 AM, by Nick Anthis • 9 Comments •
Category: Nobel Prize
"for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"
Posted on: October 8, 2008 2:12 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: Nobel Prize
was awarded for the discovery of HIV and the discovery that HPV causes cancer.
Posted on: October 6, 2008 9:10 AM, by Nick Anthis • 3 Comments •
Category: Nobel Prize
For gaging scientific consensus on global warming and taking that message to the public.
Posted on: October 12, 2007 6:11 AM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
Category: Nobel Prize
Awarded for the knockout mouse to Mario R. Capecchi, Martin J. Evans, and Oliver Smithies
Posted on: October 8, 2007 9:21 AM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
Category: Nobel Prize
The 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Roger Kornberg for his work on elucidating the molecular basis of transcription in eukaryotes.
Posted on: October 4, 2006 8:23 AM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
Category: biochemistry
The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced this morning, with one half going to Andrew Fire and the other half to Craig Mello, both for the discovery of RNA interference (RNAi). The discovery of RNAi added a...
Posted on: October 2, 2006 9:38 AM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
