News On Women (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Powerful women were on display in October09, including Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom, the first woman in history to win a Nobel Prize for economics, as well as Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider, awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine....
Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
It was a mystery: how does the chromosome replicate itself precisely during repeated cell divisions without degrading over time? Structures called telomeres (the "caps" on chromosome ends) seemed to provide some clues, but their exact function was poorly understood. The solution to the puzzle, which molecular biologist Carol Greider explained to Big Think this week, won her a share of this...
Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
From the Washington Post : " I bet he wasn't folding laundry." -- Carol Greider, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine, on what she was doing at 5 a.m. when the big call came, and her thoughts on learning of President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize.
Truthdig (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
“I bet he wasn’t folding laundry.” Carol Greider, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine, on what she was doing at 5 a.m. when the big call came, and her thoughts on learning of President Obama’s prize. READ THE WHOLE ITEM
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
WASHINGTON -- "I bet he wasn't folding laundry." Carol Greider, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine, on what she was doing at 5 a.m. when the big call came, and her thoughts on learning of President Obama's prize. Is there a woman around who read this quote and didn't smile with recognition? Greider's wry assessment encapsulates so much about the state of modern women: Nobel laureates,...
Stand Up To Cancer (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
In an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Margaret Foti, MD, PhD, CEO of SU2C partner the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), reminds us all what the Nobel Prize in Medicine represents - and why scientists like Drs. Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak deserve to be as well known as the celebrities and reality TV stars who've become household names. Dr. Blackburn is a member...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Partway through an interview, Carol Greider's cellphone emits the special ring she has set to indicate the caller is one of her two children. Greider, a molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins who this year became one of only 10 women to win the Nobel Prize in medicine, is at her phone in a split...
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Enough already. Barack Obama got the Nobel Prize for Hope and Hype, and now the rest is up to him. But there are more important Nobels, and this year women won three of these for scientific research. They won not for what they might do, sometime, maybe, could be or hope so, but for what they've already done. Only eight women have won Nobels in physiology or medicine, and the recognition of these women...
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
The recent award of Nobel Prizes in biology and chemistry to three women dredges up Larry Summers' suggestion in 2005 that differences in the female brain may account for the dearth of top women scientists. Now President Obama's economic adviser, Summers was then speechifying as president of Harvard. Carol Greider, who just won a Nobel for biology, recalls being astounded by the remark. "I thought...
The EEB and flow (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
As news of the latest Nobel prizes in physics and medicine were announced, science became a central story for many news outlets. Numerous stories and interviews were held about the discoveries that earned the laureates their just rewards. I’ve heard interviews with medicine winners, Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider (2/3 of the prize, the other being Jack Szostak), about their discovery of...
Eide Neurolearning Blog (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
“It's going to be hard work whether you think it's fun or not, so you might as well have fun while you're doing the hard work.” - Carol Greider, PhD, 2009 Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine Her application package was a bit unusual, Greider says. “I had great research experience, great letters of recommendation, and outstanding grades, but I had poor GREs.” Although she did not...
Getting Better (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
The tweet came just about an hour ago announcing the well-deserved and much-predicted award of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Elizabeth Blackburn Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for their work on how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase. I wrote about this team and...
Healthcare Economist (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
The Nobel Prize in Medicine went to Elizabeth Blackburn from the University of California, San Francisco, Jack Szostak from Harvard Medical School and Carol Greider from Johns Hopkins University. The nobel prize was awarded “for work on the existence and nature of telomerase, an enzyme that helps prevent the fraying of chromosomes and is core [...]
Gruntled Center (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Three women won science Nobel Prizes this week - Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Ada Yonath . All three are married mothers. After the dust-up over Lawrence Summers' entirely correct comments about the several factors that limit the proportion of women at the top of math and sciences professions, I have been particularly interested in women who combine biochemistry and family life. I think...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
ROYAL PALM BEACH, Fla., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The first anti-aging doctor licensed to offer TA-65 treatment in the U.S. predicted the Nobel Prize in medicine for Elizabeth Blackburn. Three Americans shared the prize, including Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for their research on telomeres, the "caps" at the end of chromosomes.
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