Tag: Nobel Prize

Diagram showing the worm C. elegans with focus on nervous and muscle systems (A), genetic differences in lin-4 and lin-14 mutants (B), and research contributions by Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun on microRNA lin-4's interaction with mRNA (C).

microRNA – 2024 Nobel in Physiology or Medicine

The 2024 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine goes to two researchers, Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, for their work on microRNA. They began their research in the same lab in the late 1980s as postdoctoral fellow, and then continued to collaborate after they each started their own labs. Their research involves a key question about multicellular life. Every cell in the...

/ October 9, 2024

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019 given to researchers who discovered the mechanisms of oxygen sensing in cells.

/ October 9, 2019

No, the Nobel Prize does not validate naturopathy or herbalism

This year's Nobel prize is an excellent case study that illustrates the problems with alternative medicine and proving just what science-based medicine can deliver.

/ October 8, 2015

Guess Who’ll Win A Nobel Prize, Win An 8GB iPod Touch

The following is an announcement from my friends at Medgadget.com: Next Monday, the Nobel Foundation will announce the winner(s) of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In the following two days, two more Nobels will be revealed: in Physics and in Chemistry. Because of the success of last year’s inaugural Guess-A-Nobel Contest, we decided we’ll repeat this event annually until...

/ October 1, 2009