Tag: Nobel Prize in Medicine

• Tuesday, October 6th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Nobel in Medicine for discovering the virus Hepatitis C: US and British scientists

  

  Three scientists who discovered the virus Hepatitis C have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology. The winners are US researchers Harvey Alter and Charles Rice and British scientist Michael Houghton.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Two Americans and a Briton win the 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize

  

  Two Americans and a Briton won the 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for discovering a molecular switch that regulates how cells adapt to fluctuating oxygen levels, opening up new approaches to treating heart failure, anemia and cancer.

• Tuesday, October 2nd 2018 - 08:43 UTC

  Nobel Medicine Prize for harnessing immune system to fight cancer

  

  James Allison from the United States and Japanese Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Medicine for discoveries leading to new approaches in harnessing the immune system to fight cancer, the award-giving body said on Monday.

• Tuesday, October 3rd 2017 - 21:31 UTC

  Nobel Prize in Medicine for three US scientists work on the body's daily rhythms

  

  Three United States scientists have won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The three were recognized for their work on the body’s daily rhythms -- the biological processes that our bodies repeat over and over again.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 06:38 UTC

  Nobel medicine prize for work on how hormones are transported in and outside cells

  

  Americans James Rothman and Randy Schekman and Germany's Thomas Suedhof won the 2013 Nobel medicine prize for their work on how hormones are transported within and outside cells, giving insight into diseases such as diabetes and Alzheimer's.

• Tuesday, October 9th 2012 - 01:09 UTC

  Nobel in Medicine for stem-cells reprogramming that could some day repair damaged organs

  

  Scientists from Britain and Japan shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery that adult cells can be reprogrammed back into stem cells which can turn into any kind of tissue and may one day repair damaged organs.