2006

Press release

Swedish 2 oktober 2006 har idag beslutat att Nobelpriset i Fysiologi eller Medicin år 2006 gemensamt tilldelas Andrew Z. Fire och Craig C. Mello för deras upptäckt av “RNA-interferens – utsläckning av geners uttryck med dubbelsträngat RNA” Sammanfattning Årets Nobelpristagare i fysiologi eller medicin har upptäckt en mekanism av central betydelse för informationsflödet i cellen.…

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Biographical

Andrew Zachary Fire was born on April 27, 1959 at Stanford University Hospital in Santa Clara County California. Spending most of his early years (until age 16) in nearby Sunnyvale, he attended the local public schools: Hollenbeck Elementary School (1964–1970), Mango Junior High School (1970–1972), and Fremont High School (1972–1975). Fire enrolled at University of…

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 10.000 litres of yeast culture – which corresponds to 150 kg of yeast – was used to finally produce 2 g of pure RNA-polymerase. Eukaryotes are organisms whose cells have well-defined nuclei. All green plants, fungi and mammals belong to this group. Roger Kornberg has developed a system of…

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 Editors: Ulrika Björkstén, Nobel Museum, Claes Gustafsson, KI, Lars Thelander, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Helena Enstedt and Malin Lindgren, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.   Layout and illustrations: Typoform   Printing: Katarinatryck AB 2006 Copyright © The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2006 Box 50005,…

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2006 to Roger D. Kornberg “for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription”. Roger D. Kornberg Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, USA. Born in 1947. Roger Kornberg surrounded by…

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