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...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
NSF funding in basic research yields great payoffs in scientific contributions worldwideThe National Science Foundation (NSF) congratulates the 2009 Nobel laureates, particularly those who have received NSF funding over the years: Jack W. Szostak, who shared the prize in physiology or medicine; Thomas A. Steitz, who shared the prize in chemistry; and Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson who earned...
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...
Digital Cheeseburger (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Digital Cheeseburger - your daily diet of irresistible unhealthy stuff is an entertainment post from: Digital Cheeseburger - covering Celebrity News, Hollywood Rumors, Celebrity Gossip, Celeb Opinion Here is a list of all the 2009 Nobel Prize winners for their respective categories, and the reasons given by The Nobel Prize committee for awarding prizes to these recipients. Physiology or Medicine:...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
This year a record five women were honored by the Nobel committees. In total, only 40 women have won the prestigious prizes, including Marie Curie who took the 1903 physics prize and the 1911 chemistry prize. The 2009 winners include: _ Elinor Ostrom, 76, who made history by being the first woman to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, sharing it with fellow American Oliver Williamson...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
The following is a list of winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine since 2000: 2009: Elizabeth H. Blackburn (U.S. and Australia), Carol W. Greider (U.S.) and Jack W. Szostak (U.S.); 2008: Harald zur Hausen (Germany), Francoise Barre-Sinoussi (France) and Luc Montagnier (France); 2007: Mario Capecchi (U.S.), Oliver Smithies (U.S.) and Martin Evans (Britain); 2006: Andrew Z. Fire (U.S.) and Craig C. Mello...
Plastic: Most Recent (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Plastic::SciTech::DNA: A US trio has just won the Medicine Nobel Prize 2009 for unravelling how this mechanism exactly works (pdf): Carol W. Greider (48), Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Jack W. Szostak.
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...
Highlight HEALTH (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced earlier this week. The prize was awarded to three U.S. scientists for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase. Two women, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, age 61, at the University of California in San Francisco, and Carol W. Greider, age 48, at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore...
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 [...]
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.
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
By GottaLaff Please go read the entire piece, but here's a sample: If you're looking for reasons to puff out your chest and take pride in being American, then take note that the first six Nobel Prize winners announced this week are U.S. citizens. Here's something else you should know: Four of those winners were born outside the U.S. That dynamic neatly summarizes the current state of our innovation...
Jacob T. Levy (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
A good week for bragging Two McGill alumni were awarded Nobel prizes this week: Jack Szostak, (BSc'72) (cell biology) was a co-winner of the Prize for Medicine and Willard Boyle (BSc'47, MSc'48, PhD'50) was a co-winner of the Prize in Physics. And in the new Times Higher Education Supplement rankings, McGill was ranked 18th in the world, top in Canada, and top public university in North America. McGill...
Bio-IT World | Top Headlines (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
New York Times | American molecular biologists Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Grieder, and Jack Szostak have shared the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their research on telomeres, the aglets of chromosomes.
The Economist (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Prizes for optical fibres, charge-coupled devices, ribosomes and telomeres HOW do you look through a window that is 100km thick? That, in essence, was the question facing Charles Kao in 1966. For working out the answer, Dr Kao has been awarded part of this year’s Nobel prize for physics. Besides being thick, the window was narrow: it was an optical fibre. Dr Kao’s prize is a belated recognition...
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