My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World. My mother, Sarah Levitan, came to America when she was 18. My father, Samuel, rebelling against an orthodox family, left home in his midteens…

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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Presentation Speech by Professor B. Uvnäs, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The work of Daniel Bovet should be considered in its context, bearing in mind what had been found out about biological amines between about 1920 and 1930. It had been thought that nerve…

NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE 9 October 1989 has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1989 jointly to J. Michael Bishop and Harold E. Varmus for their discovery of “the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes”. Summary The discovery awarded with this year’s Nobel Prize…

Every cell in our bodies contains our entire genome, the blueprint for life, wrapped up within its chromosomes. Each time one of our cells divides to form two new cells, its chromosomes need to be perfectly replicated so that each new cell receives an exact copy of the blueprint. As early as the 1930s, long…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Göran K. Hansson, ledamot av , ordförande i Nobelkommittén för fysiologi eller medicin, den 10 december 2006. Professor Göran K. Hansson presenterar Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin 2006 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Mina Damer och Herrar, Vi lever i informationsflödets epok. Informationen flödar över oss…

    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…