2023-12-01 04:20:00 The Earth had been spinning on its axis for billions of years when the first living beings appeared. Since then, we have adapted to alternating between light and darkness. The geneticist and chronobiologist Michael Rosbash (Kansas City, USA, 79 years old), professor at Brandeis University in Massachusetts and researcher at the Howard Hughes … Read more
2023-12-01 04:20:00 The Earth had been spinning on its axis for billions of years when the first living beings appeared. Since then, we have adapted to alternating between light and darkness. The geneticist and chronobiologist Michael Rosbash (Kansas City, USA, 79 years old), professor at Brandeis University in Massachusetts and researcher at the Howard Hughes … Read more
2023-10-03 22:12:00 Anne L’Huillier (Physics) and Katalin Karikó (Medicine) are the two women who recently won a Nobel Prize in some branch of science. Photo: Nobel Prize This week the Nobel Prizes are being awarded, which each year recognize those people or organizations that have made outstanding contributions in five fields. The first two awards … Read more
2023-10-02 12:43:58 The whole world applauds today Katalin Kariko (1955, Hungary) after being named, along with Drew Weisseman (1959, United States), as winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the development of technology that allowed the creation in record time of a first generation of vaccines against covid-19. But what many people don’t … Read more
The doctor in Biochemistry and Coordinator of the Scientific Communication Center, Faculty of Sciences, University of La Serena, reflected on the contributions of the 2022 Nobel Prize winners in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine for society. Regarding the Nobel Prize for Medicine, awarded to the Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo, Gatica maintained that: “It has allowed us … Read more
a way to recognize discoveries that have been relevant in biomedicine is the awarding of prizes to the researchers involved in those findings. The Nobel Prize for Medicine in Physiology or Medicine is one of the most prestigious, but others like the Breakthrough Prize or even the BBVA Foundation award Frontiers of Knowledge are also … Read more
announced Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences For the award of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics to Alan Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, the prestigious award is 10 million Swedish kronor ($1.14 million). The members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said during the press conference that they were awarded the 2022 … Read more
Madrid Madrid Updated Monday, October 3, 2022 – 11:56 The Swedish geneticist has developed methods to study ancient DNA that have allowed the recovery and analysis of the genome of extinct species such as the Neanderthals Swedish biologist Svante Pbo.AP The assembly Nobel of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm has distinguished with the Nobel Prize … Read more