News tagged with nobel prize winners
Patients' skin cells transformed into heart cells to create 'disease in a dish'
Researchers use skin cells from patients with an inherited heart condition to recreate the adult-onset disease in a laboratory dish—producing the first maturation-based disease model for testing new therapies.
Medical research
Jan 27, 2013 |
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Nations that consume a lot of milk... also win a lot of Nobel prizes
Nations that consume a lot of milk and milk products also tend to have a lot of Nobel laureates among their populations, suggest the authors of a letter, published in Practical Neurology.
Neuroscience
Jan 14, 2013 |
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Protein kinase Akt identified as arbiter of cancer stem cell fate, paper reports
(Medical Xpress)—The protein kinase Akt is a key regulator of cell growth, proliferation, metabolism, survival, and death. New work on Akt's role in cancer stem cell biology from the lab of senior author ...
Cancer
Dec 20, 2012 |
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Eat more chocolate, win more Nobels?
Take this with a grain of salt, or perhaps some almonds or hazelnuts: A study ties chocolate consumption to the number of Nobel Prize winners a country has and suggests it's a sign that the sweet treat can ...
Other
Oct 10, 2012 |
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Researcher points to suppression of evidence on radiation effects by 1946 Nobel Laureate
University of Massachusetts Amherst environmental toxicologist Edward Calabrese, whose career research shows that low doses of some chemicals and radiation are benign or even helpful, says he has uncovered evidence that one ...
Other
Sep 20, 2011 |
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