Medical research
Out of the limelight: Nobel medicine prize winner Ohsumi
Some people are drawn to the flashy and popular, but Nobel laureate Yoshinori Ohsumi isn't one of them.
Oct 3, 2016
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Medical research
Nobel medicine prize opens 2016 awards season
The 2016 Nobel prize season kicks off Monday with the announcement of the medicine prize by a scandal-tainted jury, to be followed over the next 10 days by the other science awards and those for peace and literature.
Oct 3, 2016
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List of recent winners of the Nobel medicine
Nobel judges at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm will announce the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday on the heels of a scandal over a disgraced stem cell scientist that has rocked the prestigious institution.
Oct 2, 2016
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Neuroscience
Tracing the scent of fear: Study identifies neurons, brain region involved in rodent stress response
The odor of bobcat urine, if you ever get a chance to take a whiff, is unforgettable—like rotten meat combined with sweat, with something indescribably feral underlying it. To humans, it's just nose-wrinklingly disgusting.
Mar 21, 2016
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Toil and trouble in China over Nobel medicine prize
China's Tu Youyou collects her country's first Nobel Prize for medicine next week for extracting an anti-malarial drug from a herb mentioned in a traditional text, but her award has prompted debate over the role of science ...
Dec 2, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Drug-resistant malaria could spread to Africa: study
A drug-resistant malaria parasite from southeast Asia can infect African mosquitoes, said a study Tuesday, boosting fears that a hard-to-cure variant of the disease could reach the world's most vulnerable continent.
Oct 20, 2015
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Interview: Nobel gives scientist recognition in China
The time could not have been more hostile for Chinese scientists. Research came to a virtual halt and intellectuals were routinely persecuted. But Tu Youyou, then a 39-year-old researcher, was summoned to join a secretive ...
Oct 7, 2015
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Medical research
'Gifts' from Chinese herbal medicine
Derived from a herb used to treat fevers some 1,700 years ago, the anti-malaria drug artemisinin is one of many treatments plucked from the treasure chest of ancient Chinese medicine and repackaged for a modern age.
Oct 6, 2015
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China wins long-sought Nobel Prize in one of the sciences (Update)
For decades, China has yearned for a Nobel Prize in science. Now, a little-known researcher who helped develop a malaria medicine in a secret military project to assist Vietnam in its war against the U.S. has finally won ...
Oct 6, 2015
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Chinese Nobel medicine winner, 84, 'not really surprised'
Tu Youyou, the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel prize for medicine, said Tuesday she was "not really surprised" to be recognised after a remarkable career which saw her team test a breakthrough malaria drug on themselves ...
Oct 6, 2015
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