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'Test-Tube Baby' Pioneer Edwards Gets Nobel in Medicine

It may have come a bit too late, but a very deserving Robert Edwards has finally been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the year 2010!

Edwards, currently the professor emeritus at the Cambridge University, was a pioneer when he began his work in In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), in the early 1950s.
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Nobel Prize in Medicine - 2009

The 2009 Nobel Prize for medicine has been aanounced! It has been awarded to researchers Elizabeth Blackburn, her student Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for studying the way chromosomes are protected and for discovering the 'immortality enzyme' telomerase...

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Nobel Prize In Medicine: All European Affair

The Nobel Prize for medicine this year has been awarded to three Europeans, Luc Montagnier, Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Harald Zur Hausen for their work on viruses. This was announced at the Karolinska Institute in Stockho, recently. The ?gift hamper? includes a gold medal, a diploma and a cash reward of 1.42 million dollars...

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Prize for a Nobel Cause

Most of us are familiar with the Nobel Prizes. They generate visions in us, of Watson and Crick, who unraveled the myriad world of molecular biology, of the missionary of peace, Mother Teresa and of the sublime and inspiring poetries of Rabindranath Tagore. But who are the lucky ones this year? In keeping with the tradition, the rumor mill is agog and several speculations are strewn around. The Nobel committee, however, is decidedly silent...

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2007 jointly to Mario R. Capecchi, Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies for their discoveries of 'principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells'...

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Nobel Prize for Gene - 'Silencing'

This year, the Nobel prize for medicine has been conferred on two Americans, Andrew Z Fire of the MIT and Craig C Mello of the Harvard University, for their discovery of 'RNA interference', a catalytic process proposed to occur in plants, animals and humans...

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Nobel Laureates in Medicine

Year

Names

Discoveries

2010 Robert G. Edwards
"for the development of in vitro fertilization"

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