Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Japanese Atomic Bomb Survivors
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons. Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said the award was made as...
Nobel Prize In Medicine Honors American Duo For Their Discovery Of MicroRNA
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded Monday to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, tiny pieces of genetic material that alter how genes work at the cellular level and could lead to new ways...
Nobel Prize Awarded to Pioneers of mRNA Technology Behind COVID-19 Vaccines
The scientists behind revolutionary messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, have won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work that underpins COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out across the globe. In 1998, Dr. Karikó, an mRNA specialist from Hungary who harboured...
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