nobel prize

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation...

Every once in a while peptic ulcers are mentioned here as a parallel to ME/CFS. Peptic ulcers were seen as something caused by stress and/or bad dietary habits until the discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori in the stomach by two Australian doctors, Barry Marshall and Robin Warren...

Nobel Prize in Medicine won by Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice for discovery of Hepatitis C Some of you may recognize Harvey Alter who was involved in ME research in the XMRV times, and Michael Houghton from Alberta, Canada was also involved in ME research...

Nobel Prize Winner Frances Arnold Retracts Paper, Here Is The Reaction By Bruce Y. Lee - Forbes (Jan 5, 2020)

In a number of publications. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nobel-prize-winner-medicine-peter-ratcliffe-william-kaelin-gregg-semenza-a9145721.html see also https://news.sky.com/story/british-professor-sir-peter-ratcliffe-in-trio-of-nobel-prize-winners-for-medicine-11829947

New documentary explores the 'complexities and contradictions' of James Watson PBS is premiering a new documentary tonight [2 Jan 2019] about James Watson, the scientist who won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for his role in the research that revealed the structure of DNA. Watson went on to serve as...

Immunologists, James Allison, and Tasuku Honjo, went against conventional wisdom to "pioneer treatments that unleash the body's own immune system to attack cancer cells." These two scientists will share the 2018 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine...

Wessely, White and Sharpe overlooked again... https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/oct/01/james-p-allison-and-tasuku-honjo-win-nobel-prize-for-medicine?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other PS: I’m not sure this work has any direct implications for ME/CFS, where, as I understand it, if anything, we’re...

I wish that Nobel laureates could investigate ME patients as well as banana flies... https://twitter.com/DrMaureenHanson/status/915031726946230272 Maureen Hanson‏ @DrMaureenHanson 3 okt. ME/CFS patients feel like their circadian clocks are disrupted. https://tinyurl.com/y7oodfo4 . More research...