2002
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002 The Implications of the Discoveries Some diseases characterized by defective cell death (left) and excessive cell death (right). The introduction of C. elegans as a novel experimental model system, the characterization of its invariant cell lineage, and the…
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002 The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Sydney Brenner, Robert Horvitz and John Sulston for their discoveries concerning “genetic regulation…
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002 Male Female Programmed cell death eliminates unwanted structures during the development of the male and female inner reproductive organs. The human body consists of hundreds of cell types, all originating from the fertilized egg. During the embryonic and…
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Biographical
An autobiography published a few years ago records many of the salient events in my life which led me to become a scientist and my Nobel Lecture covers the intellectual background and consequences of the research work for which the Prize has been awarded. In this somewhat compressed version, I start with my birth on…
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