Physiology or Medicine

Award ceremony speech

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…

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Press release

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…

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Speed read

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…

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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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    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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Award ceremony speech

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Rune Toftgård, ledamot av , 10 December 2009 Professor Rune Toftgård presenterar Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin 2009 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina Damer och Herrar, Varje människa med alla olika celltyper och vävnader utvecklas från en första befruktad äggcell genom upprepade celldelningar. Den kompletta…

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Biographical

Theodor Kocher was born on August 25, 1841, at Berne. His father, a Chief-Engineer, was a very keen worker and kept him constantly at work. The influence of a devoted mother and later the loving care of a selfsacrificing wife enabled him to pass without interruption through the continuous strait of secondary school and University,…

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Biographical

Peyton Rous was born in Baltimore in 1879. His mother’s ancestors were Huguenots who settled in Virginia after the Edict of Nantes. Just before the Civil War in the 1860’s her father, foreseeing disaster, bought land in Texas, moving his big family there after it ended. There he became a judge «riding three counties», and…

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