Prof. David Baker, of the University of Washington School of Medicine, shared the 2024 Nobel Chemistry Prize with two other scientists “for their use of artificial intelligence in predicting protein structures from their amino acid sequences.” Their work may enable humas to “design[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Nobel Prize’
January 20th, 2020 - 12:32 am § in Donald Trump, Hypocrisy
TRUMP JEALOUSY OF Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
Trump complains that Barack Obama got a Nobel Prize. So why hasn’t the Donald won a Nobel Prize for Peace? The Donald Trump has said several times that he has been nominated, including a false claim that the Prime Minister of Japan nominated Trump and Kim Jun un for their dialogue and Trump&[...]
October 3rd, 2016 - 9:10 am § in Misc.
A Disappointing Nobel
A disappointing award. There are many more exciting discoveries in biology. This year’s Nobel in Medicine went to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan. Professor Ohsumi won the award for his work on how cells destroyer their one parts, a process that is central to development and to aging. I was ver[...]
September 30th, 2016 - 6:22 pm § in Misc.
Nobel Prize in Medicine .. will be announced at 2:20 AM Seattle Time
I can think of at least three possible candidates here in Seattle: Mary Claire King, Breast Cancer Lee Hood, Human Genome Project Jerry Nepom, Type 1 Diabetes Nobel Prize Links on TA[...]
October 5th, 2015 - 8:00 am § in Misc.
Nobel Goes For Practical Medicine
Nobel Prize for Medicine goes to pioneers in parasitic diseases – The judges in Stockholm awarded the prize to William C Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura and Youyou Tu – the first ever Chinese medicine laureate. Campbell and Ōmura were cited for discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infec[...]
October 9th, 2014 - 10:16 am § in Misc.
Swedish Academy Honors French Post-Holocaust Writer
Patrick Modiano, 69, France’s leading “Post-Holocaust” writer whose novels focus on the loss of human identity in the Holocaust and Occupied France, has been awarded the 2014 Nobel Literature Prize “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human des[...]