News tagged with medicine prize
Nobel jury caught off guard by death of laureate
The Nobel Medicine Prize jury was caught off guard Monday when it honoured a Canadian scientist who unbeknownst to them died just days before the announcement, with prize rules forbidding posthumous awards. ...
Oct 03, 2011 |
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Nobel Prizes honor a record 5 women in 2009
(AP) -- A record five women were among the 13 people awarded Nobel Prizes on Thursday, including a writer who depicted life behind the Iron Curtain and researchers who showed how chromosomes protect themselves from degrading.
Dec 10, 2009 |
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US trio win Nobel Medicine Prize for research into ageing (Update 3)
Australian-American researcher Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider and Jack Szostak of the United States won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for identifying a key switch in cellular ageing.
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Ig Nobel: Researchers named the cream of the crop
(PhysOrg.com) -- Newcastle scientists Dr Catherine Douglas and Dr Peter Rowlinson have won the Ig Nobel Prize for Veterinary Medicine for their work looking at reducing stress levels in dairy cattle. In a paper published earlier this year, they described how giving a cow ...
Oct 02, 2009 |
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Engineering images bring life to submerged city
(PhysOrg.com) -- Photo-realistic 3D mapping and digital reconstruction of an ancient underwater city in Greece have earned a team from the University of Sydney's Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies ...
Feb 10, 2012 |
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Students design virtual ID badge to combat online hackers
A student entrepreneurial team at the University of Utah believes it has come up with a winning business plan for a virtual ID badge that operates off of any mobile device. The team, calling itself EMRID Technologies, developed ...
Feb 08, 2012 |
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The search for life's stirrings
Scientists studying how life arose on Earth are stumped by several key steps in that eventual process, but a Harvard scientist studying the earliest cells says that seemingly intractable problems in this field ...
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Stimulation of brain hormone action may improve pneumonia survival
An international research team may have found a way to block a second wave of death that can result from pneumonia treatment.
Jan 31, 2012 |
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Scientists shed light on magnetic mystery of graphite
The physical property of magnetism has historically been associated with metals such as iron, nickel and cobalt; however, graphite – an organic mineral made up of stacks of individual carbon sheets – has baffled ...
Jan 26, 2012 |
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New fluorescent dyes highlight neuronal activity
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have created a new generation of fast-acting fluorescent dyes that optically highlight electrical activity in neuronal membranes. The ...
Jan 25, 2012 |
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Escape from the mouse trap? New experimental models developing
(Medical Xpress) -- Mark Davis, PhD, director of Stanford’s Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection, has used mice to brilliant effect. They have helped him and a legion of fellow immunologists unravel many ...
Jan 23, 2012 |
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Medical physicists say fear of diagnostic radiation is overblown
An association of physicists in the medical field has warned patients not to decline diagnostic radiation procedures because of perceptions that the tests may be harmful.
Jan 12, 2012 |
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Senator warns FDA on danger of newest painkillers
Following fatal shootings in two New York pharmacy robberies, a U.S. senator is warning that a new batch of "super painkillers" now under review could force repeats of recent violent robberies that left six people dead.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 08, 2012 |
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Genetic predisposition to disease common in two supercentenarians: study
The first-ever published whole-genome sequences of not just one, but two supercentenarians, aged more than 114 years, reveal that both unusual and common genetic phenomena contribute to the genetic background of extreme human ...
Jan 03, 2012 |
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