2007 EURYI: 20 young researchers to receive Nobel Prize-sized awards for breakthrough ideas
... ... EURYI is designed to attract outstanding young scientists from around the world...Nobel scientists Craig Mello and John Mather to speak on origins of life and universe
... John Mather, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics, will present the talk "From the Big Bang to the Nobel Prize." He will discuss the history of the universe in a nutshell - how the universe began with a Big Bang, how it produced an Earth where sentient beings can live, and...'Dutch Nobel Prize' for 4 top Dutch researchers
... ... Prof. D.M. (Deirdre) Curtin, lawyer at Utrecht University. Curtin has made outstanding contributions to the developmen...Nobel laureate James Watson receives personal genome in ceremony at Baylor College of Medicine
... Personalized genomes span the gulf between genetic diagnostics and genomics, said Gi...Rutgers anthropologist to receive Crafoord Prize, biology's equivalent of Nobel Prize
... The Crafoord Prize promotes international basic research in disciplines that complement those for which the Nobel Prizes are awarded. These include astronomy and mathematics, geosciences, biosciences (with a particular emphasis on ecology) and rheumatoid arthritis. In contrast, the science Nobel Prizes focus specifically on chemistry,...Nobel Laureate finds 'elegant' explanation for DNA transcribing enzyme's high fidelity
Last month, Roger Kornberg of Stanford University won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his efforts to unravel the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription, in which enzymes give voice to DNA by copying it into the RNA molecules that serve as templates for protein in organisms from yeast to humans. Now, Kornberg and his colleagues report in the December 1, 2006 issue of the journal Cell, publi...Free article by Nobel Laureate in November MCP
... Dr. Fire was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Dr. Craig C. Mello for their discovery of RNA interference (RNAi). In the MCP paper, F...Comments, experts and background on the 2006 Nobel Prize in chemistry
... ......American Andrew Z. Fire shares Nobel Prize for discovering RNAi
Washington, D.C., October 2, 2006--Andrew Z. Fire, a scientist who discovered RNAi, or RNA interference while at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Embryology, along with Craig C. Mello of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, was awarded a Nobel Prize for the discovery today. ... The Fire-Mello discovery that double-stranded RNA can quash the activity of specific genes is an im...Virginia Tech student selected to meet Nobel Laureates
Nicholas S. Wigginton of Holt, Mich., a Ph.D. student in geosciences at Virginia Tech, has been nominated by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to attend a meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, in late June....... Wigginton's research at PNNL is based in part on the discoveries of Rudolph Marcus, who received the Nobel in chemistry in 1992 for his contributions to the theory of...Nobel Laureate Nsslein-Volhard to discuss mysteries of genetics
Why do children look like their parents? How does an embryonic cell know how to become an eye rather than an eyelash? How do simple egg cells develop into so many different life forms? ...... To discuss some of the mysteries behind genetic development and explain how they determine many of our traits as human beings, Nobel Laureate Christiane Nsslein-Volhard will present a talk, Coming to Life...Insulin research builds on Nobel Laureate's work
Scientists have seen for the first time a key step in the complex molecular processes whereby pancreas cells release insulin into the bloodstream....... The breakthrough, which builds on earlier Nobel-Prize winning research, could have implications for the treatment of diabetes which is caused when not enough insulin is released by the pancreas to meet the body's demands....... The team of scient...Nobelist discovers antidepressant protein in mouse brain
A protein that seems to be pivotal in lifting depression has been discovered by a Nobel Laureate researcher funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). ...... "Mice deficient in this protein, called p11, display depression-like behaviors, while those with sufficient amounts behave as if they have been treated with antidepressants," explained Paul Gree...Comments, experts and background on the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Comments by William F. Carroll, Jr., Ph.D., ......President, American Chemical Society ...... ...... "Metathesis is one of organic chemistrys most important reactions and, as noted in todays announcement by the Royal Swedish Acade...Nobel Laureates solve 72 year old, dietary cholesterol puzzle
72 years ago, the first evidence for end-product feedback regulation of a biosynthetic pathway was demonstrated when Rudolph Shoenheimer observed that mice synthesized large amounts of cholesterol when fed a low-cholesterol diet, but this synthesis stopped when the mice were fed cholesterol. ...... In later years, many details of this cholesterol feedback were worked out, but the main mechanism...Symposium honors achievements of Fox Chase Cancer Center Nobel Laureate Baruch Blumberg
PHILADELPHIA (June 7, 2005) Fox Chase Cancer Center will honor the lifetime achievement of Nobel Laureate Baruch S. Blumberg, M.D., Ph.D., on the occasion of his 80th birthday with a special scientific symposium Thursday, June 16, 2005, at 2:00 p.m. in the Fox Chase Cancer Center Auditorium.... The symposium will examine Blumberg's Nobel Prize-winning research and celebrate his more recent work...Colleagues, friends gather to commemorate Nobel Laureate Axelrod
Luminaries from the fields of neuroscience and mental health will gather at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Monday, May 23, to celebrate the life and achievements of one of their most honored colleagues, the late Nobel Laureate Julius Axelrod, Ph.D. Dr. Axelrod, known to his friends as "Julie," spent most of his 50 years as an NIH scientist at the National Institute of Mental Health, (...'Termite guts can save the planet,' says Nobel laureate
The way termite guts process food could teach scientists how to produce pollution-free energy and help solve the world's imminent energy crisis. Speaking at the Institute of Physics conference Physics 2005 in Warwick today, Nobel laureate Steven Chu urged scientists to turn their attention to finding an environmentally friendly form of fuel. In an impassioned plea to some of the world's brightest...Emory biochemist writes lead essay describing Nobel Prize research on ubiquitin protein
ATLANTA During the late 1970s Emory University School of Medicine biochemist Keith D. Wilkinson, PhD, was a research fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Irwin Rose at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. Dr. Wilkinson was part of the team that discovered the key biological function of the ubiquitin protein, which helps regulate cells by "tagging" cellular proteins that need to be eliminated...Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner receives 2005 UCSD/Merck Life Science Achievement Award
Sydney Brenner, a distinguished professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and a recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in medicine, has been selected to receive the 2005 UCSD/Merck Life Sciences Achievement Award. ......Brenner, who is also an adjunct professor of biology at the University of California, San Diego, will receive the prestigious $25,000 award on April 1 at a dinner on the U...Nobel laureates to open ASBMB annual meeting in San Diego
Bethesda, Maryland, March 11, 2005: In a first for the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), two Nobel Laureates will share the Herbert Tabor/Journal of Biological Chemistry Lectureship. Both Dr. Michael S. Brown and Dr. Joseph L. Goldstein, who were awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol me...Three Nobel laureates to speak at 06 AACBNC Meeting
February 22, 2005 - The theme of the next annual meeting of the Association of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Neurobiology Chairpersons (AACBNC) will be "The Future of Interdisciplinary Research and Training: Breaking Down the Barriers." Dr. Steven R. Goodman, President of the AACBNC, organized the meeting that will be held on January 18th to 21st 2006. ... ...Dr. Goodman stated, "My dream was to have...Marine Biological Laboratory summer investigator wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
October 6, 2004-The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today that Avram Hershko, a summer researcher at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation." Dr. Hershko, a professor of biochemistry at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, shares...Irwin Rose wins 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 6, 2004 -- Irwin Rose, a researcher in the UC Irvine College of Medicine, has been named a recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.... ...Rose, 78, shares the prize with Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko of the Israel Institute of Technology for their discovery of the major pathway through which cellular building blocks called ubiquitin proteins are regulated by degr...Putting physiology into the Nobel Prize: 2004 marks 100th anniversary of Pavlov's award
Bethesda, MD (Oct. 6, 2004) Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck's receiving the Nobel Prize highlights the fact that the health sciences award is for physiology OR medicine. That is, either for a medical breakthrough per se, or like Axel and Buck's work, research in the broad context of the health sciences, of which physiology is arguably the most inclusive....... [A comprehensive review article on s...HHMI researchers Richard Axel and Linda Buck win 2004 Nobel Prize
The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute announced this morning that the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to , an HHMI investigator at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The scientists were honored for their discoveries that clarify how the olfactory system works. ...... Axel and Buck discovered a large gene family,...NEW YORK, NY, October 4, 2004 Richard Axel, M.D. of Columbia University Medical Center has won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Linda B. Buck, Ph.D., of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for clarifying how the olfactory system works. Dr. Buck was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia when she and Dr. Axel jointly published the fundamental paper on the subject in 19...