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Interview with the 2019 laureate in physiology or medicine Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe, 6 December 2019. Did you always plan on studying medicine?  Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe: I can remember the day of choosing medicine. The headmaster, rather austere figure, came into the chemistry classroom and said Ratcliffe, could I have a word? And I…

Nobel Prize Conversations “When we’re doing genetics, we are tapping into that mythic power of change.”  In this conversation with molecular biologist Gary Ruvkun, we discover his scientific journey and find out that the world of genetics still has many fields left to explore.  A natural storyteller, Ruvkun also shares some of his favourite tales…

Student meets medicine laureate Katalin Karikó Join Emanuelle Tavares, a biomedical student at the University of Skövde as she talks to 2023 medicine laureate , whose work led to the development of mRNA vaccines for COVID-19. She explains how despite being terminated from her position and considered ‘unsuccessful’ she always tied success to what she…

Gary Ruvkun in a conversation with a student Join Ravindu Liyanage, a molecular bioinformatics student at the University of Skövde, as he talks to 2024 medicine laureate who co-discovered microRNAs, a new class of tiny RNA molecules that play a crucial role in gene regulation.

Nobel Prize Conversations “The reason why I was doing science all these years is because I just love doing it.” Medicine laureate Victor Ambros grew up on a farm with seven siblings. Throughout his career, he has seen collaboration as a crucial part of science. In this podcast conversation with Adam Smith, Ambros talks about…

Do you know your blood type? Today, we take it for granted that people have different blood types. But not so long ago, most people believed all blood was the same – a fatal misunderstanding.  At a glance Karl Landsteiner’s research in the early 1900s led to the classification of blood into groups.  The discovery…