NLS Nobel Prize

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 “for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics” with one half to Arthur Ashkin “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems” and the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”. Optical […]

James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo are the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2018 “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation.” James P. Allison studied a known protein that functions as a brake on the immune system. He realized the potential of releasing the brake and […]

In our Nobel Prize section we take a closer look at the Chemistry and the Medicine discoveries, as well as the Laureates behind the two awards. Learn more about how bioimaging is shaping research in the Nordic countries, meet Danish scientists with big plans for cryo-EM in the Nordics and the Swedish scientists revealing the beautiful and complex architecture of human cells. Learn more […]

As always, the Nordic Life Science magazine will, in our first issue of the year: the Nobel issue, highlight the Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry and Medicine. The issue will be filled with Nobel coverage, including exclusive interviews with all six Laureates in Chemistry and Physiology or Medicine. You will also learn more about their […]

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 to Jacques Dubochet, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Joachim Frank, Columbia University, New York, USA and Richard Henderson, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK. The receives the award “for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution”. […]

The Prize will be awarded jointly to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm. Life on Earth is adapted to the rotation of our planet. For many years we have known that living organisms, including humans, have an internal, biological clock that helps them […]