Nobel Prize Discoveries - July 21, 2021
Ending hepatitis – The discovery of HCV
Piece by piece the Nobel Laureates laid the puzzle in understanding and determining the hepatitis C virus, a discovery that has saved millions of lives.
Nobel Prize Discoveries - March 28, 2021
CRISPR/Cas9 – Rewriting the code of life
The discovery of CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors has revolutionized a lot of research areas, not least within life sciences, and the technology is bringing hope for new cancer therapies and the treatment of inherited diseases. The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna’s discovery of CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. This enzyme […]
Nobel Prize Discoveries - December 2, 2020
Finding the right rhythm
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 recognized the creation of a rechargeable world that paved the way for pacemakers.
Nobel Prize Discoveries - March 26, 2020
Body clock studies – more than just jet lag
Swedish scientist Gabriella Lundkvist explains how the cellular mechanisms of the circadian clock may be altered in psychiatric disease and how she has been able to watch the molecular clock “live”.
Nobel Prize Discoveries - December 10, 2019
How cells manage oxygen
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to William G. Kaelin Jr., Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for revealing the mechanism of one of life’s most essential adaptive processes.
Nobel Prize Discoveries - December 10, 2018
Beams of lights
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that they had decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 “For groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics,” providing us with optical tweezers and corrective eye surgeries.
