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Medicine prize kicks off Nobel week
The 2012 Nobel Prize season opens Monday with the award for medicine, marking the start of a week of announcements and speculation over who will collect the literature and peace prizes.
Oct 8, 2012
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I did my best work 50 years ago, says Nobel winner Gurdon (Update)
British scientist John Gurdon, awarded the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday with Japan's Shinya Yamanaka for work in cell programming, said he was "immensely grateful and astonished."
Oct 8, 2012
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Oncology & Cancer
Research funding slump alarms head of US cancer institutes
The head of the US National Cancer Institute warned Tuesday that the United States could lose its global leadership in research into the disease because of lower spending.
Sep 25, 2012
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Medical research
RNA interference for human therapy
Leading scientists in the field investigated the potential of RNA interference (RNAi) technology as a therapeutic intervention for down-regulating the expression of disease-associated genes. Project deliverables hold significant ...
Sep 20, 2012
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Oncology & Cancer
HIF gene mutation found in tumor cells offers new clues about cancer metabolism
For the first time, a mutation in HIF2α, a specific group of genes known as transcription factors that is involved in red blood cell production and cell metabolism, has been identified in cancer tumor cells.
Sep 6, 2012
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Medical research
Analyzing tumor cells in blood using nanomagnets
Siemens' researchers have been able to analyze blood cells by employing the same magnetic reading technology as is used for computer hard drives. They have developed a prototype for the magnetic flow cytometry of blood. Blood ...
Jul 16, 2012
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Neuroscience
Stanford and MIT scientists win Perl-UNC Neuroscience prize
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has awarded the 12th Perl-UNC Neuroscience prize to Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD of Stanford University and Edward Boyden, PhD and Feng Zhang, PhD of the Massachusetts Institute ...
Apr 25, 2012
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Gabon research centre says antimalarial drug within reach
A scientist at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital's medical research unit said Wednesday that trials of a new antimalarial drug were encouraging and paved the way for licensing.
Apr 25, 2012
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Italian Nobel medicine winner Dulbecco dies at 97
Renato Dulbecco, who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in medicine for his seminal research on the interaction between tumors and cells, has died in California. He was 97.
Feb 20, 2012
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Medical research
New treatment for Multiple Sclerosis: Cambridge University translates research at the bench into a drug at the bedside
The culmination of three decades of research in Cambridge has resulted in the exciting prospect of a new transformational treatment for multiple sclerosis.
Nov 15, 2011
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