Green Fluorescent Protein: Lighting up Life
The accidental discovery of this wonderful tool has changed the face of biology.
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The Road to the Nobel Prize – Lessons from a life with the Helicobacter pylori
In 2005 Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in recognition of their 1982 discovery that a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, causes one of the most common and important diseases of mankind, pepti....
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Dr Michael Brown and his long-time colleague, Dr Joseph L. Goldstein, together discovered the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor, which controls the level of cholesterol in blood and in cells. They showed that mutations in this receptor cause fam....
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Dr. Tim Hunt spent almost 30 years altogether in Cambridge, mostly working on the control of protein synthesis. In 1982, he discovered cyclins, which led to a share of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, with Lee Hartwell and Paul Nurse....
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Peter Doherty shared the 1996 Nobel Medicine Prize for discovering the nature of the cellular immune defense. This lecture is from his visit to India as part of the Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative.
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Bruce Beutler shared one half of the 2011 Nobel Medicine Prize with Jules Hoffman for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity. This lecture is from a visit to Boston as part of the Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative.
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Lecture from Nobel Laureate Oliver Smithies, during a visit to China as part of the Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative
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Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D. is the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discoveries in telomere biology that have uncovered a new understanding of normal cell functioning and given rise to a growing field of inquiry.Lect....
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Peter Agre shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Roderick MacKinnon “for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes.” Here he gives a lecture in Russia as part of the Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative
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