NLS Nobel Prize

A thousand times thinner than a strand of hair, but with an impact as big as the microchip.

A neuroscientist reports on Huntington disease results and a Nobel Prize reaction.

As in previous years, Nordic Life Science will highlight the Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Medicine in our first issue of the year. In our upcoming issue we have interviewed some of this year’s Laureates and we take a closer look at their findings together with Nordic scientists working in their fields. The magazine is […]

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 to Jean-Pierre Sauvage at the University of Strasbourg, France, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart at the Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA and Bernard L. Feringa at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands “for the design and synthesis of molecular machines”. A tiny lift, artificial muscles and miniscule motors. […]

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy. This year’s Nobel Laureate discovered and elucidated mechanisms underlying autophagy, a fundamental process for degrading and recycling cellular components. The word autophagy originates from the Greek words auto-, meaning […]

The Paolo Macchiarini scandal at the Karolinska Institutet has prompted Urban Lendahl, secretary general of the Nobel Assembly, to resign. Lendahl, a developmental geneticist at KI, was involved in hiring Macchiarini in 2010. A statement from the Nobel Committee yesterday said that Lendahl expected to be involved in the investigation and was giving up his work on […]