Newswww.thelancet.com/oncology Vol 14 November 2013 1159Nobel Prizes for 2013: contributions to cancer researchThis year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists whose work contributed to the understanding of mechanisms that control how vesicles transport molecules ...
Reports that the 100th Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to three scientists for discovering 'key regulators of the cell cycle.' Lee Hartwell, Tim Hunt, and Paul Nurse, who received the award for their discoveries; Idea that the control of cell division is ...
Cancer patient Shaun Tierney (C) is seen here with his doctor Toni Choueiri (L) and Nobel prize winner William Kaelin (R) at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston When Shaun Tierney was diagnosed with an aggressive form of kidney cancer in 2007, the prognosis was grim. Ad Twelve year...
Two immunologists, James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan, won the 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize for research into how the body's natural defences can fight cancer, the jury said on Monday. Unlike more traditional forms of cancer treatment that directly target cancer cells—often with ...
Their research revealed how genes, which contain the instruction manual for life, give rise to different types of cells within the human body, a process known as gene regulation. The Nobel Prize committee announced the prestigious honor, seen as the pinnacle of scientific achievement, in Sweden ...
Why they won:Allison and Honjo share the prize “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation.” Why it matters:In his research, Allison investigated a protein found on immune cells, which were known to act as a braking mechanisms for the immune system. Th...
The Nobel Prize, which is awarded annually, is open to everyone, regardless of nationality, race, belief or ideology, and winners are announced in October. We evaluated the history of the Nobel prizes for awards that have been awarded in fields related to cancer. The contents of the research...
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to a trio of scientists who unravelled the mysterious ways in which our cells sense oxygen.
This is one of the reasons why cancer is so hard to cure.Screenshot from the Nobel prize official Twitter handleAs the research of the two laureates described, there are ways to manually release the brakes, and stimul...
The prizelast yearwent to cancer immunotherapy pioneers Tasuku Honjo, of Kyoto University in Japan, and James Allison, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Allison’s research, conducted at the University of California Berkeley in the 1990s, dis...