It's Wednesday at the beginning of October so it means all the science Nobel Prize winners have been announced. So here they are the winners of this year award for Medicine, Physics and Chemistry.

The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded one half jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura "for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy ( Read more... )

It's Nobel season again and now that we know all the important ones (sorry, I don't feel the same excitement for Literature, Peace or Economy prizes). So here they are:

The Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine was awarded for the discovery cells that make up a positioning system in the brain. They are responsible for our ability to create a ( Read more... )

Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was awarded for cell package delivery system - vesicles. Membranes not only separate cells from outside but also create separate compartments inside the cell - most notably nucleus and mitochondria - but there is also long series of something that looks almost like a tube system. Ribosomes stick to part of it ( Read more... )

I have to give a presentation tomorrow so I just wanted to post this nice explanation of this year's Physics Nobel

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European Union got the Peace Nobel Price. The Nobel Peace Prize 2012 was awarded to European Union (EU) "for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe". Unlike the others this is awarded in Oslo which makes it a little funny as Norwegians have been consistently rejecting ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a tough day so I was to tired for this so here's your delayed Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka "for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors".

Robert Lefkowitz at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Durham, North Carolina, and Brian Kobilka at Stanford University in California were recognised ( Read more... )

Today it's time for the Physics Nobel and it's quantum. Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the US got the prize for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems".

Serge Haroche at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and David Wineland at the US National Institute of ( Read more... )

It's Nobel week and we'll get a new laureate every day. We start with the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine that was given to two stem cell researchers whose discoveries are over 40 years apart. John Gurdon from the UK and Shinya Yamanaka from Japan were awarded the prize "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become ( Read more... )

You've probably heard about the Nobel in Physiology this year. It was awarded for the breakthroughs in the immunology to Bruce Beutler and Jules Hoffman discovered how the body's first line of defence was activated and to Ralph Seinman discovered the dendritic cell, which helps defeat infection. However after the laureates were announced it turned ( Read more... )

This was The Nobel week. Since Monday everyday a new Nobel Laureate was announced. And the controversy followed.

First the Nobel for the Medicine went to the man who devised method for in vitro fertilisation. Robert Edwards pioneered a method that alowed millions of people to have their own children. IVF was controversial since a beginning and in ( Read more... )