Medicine

All Eyes on the 2025 Nobel Prizes: What You Need to Know

Vanessa Kallas, 07/10 18:55 - Reading : 7 minute(s)

Nobel Prize 2025 Nomination Donald Trump Medicine Physics

The 2025 Nobel Prizes have officially begun, with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarding the prizes for medicine on Monday and physics on Tuesday. Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi won the Medicine Prize for discoveries on immune system function, while John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis received the ...

US-Japanese Trio Win Medicine Nobel for Immune System Research

This is Beirut, 06/10 13:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

United States Japan Nobel Medicine Health

Mary E. Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell of the United States and Japan's Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday for research into how the immune system is kept in check, the Nobel jury said. Their discoveries have been decisive for understanding how the immune system functions and why we do not all develop serious autoimmune ...

Denmark could eradicate cervical cancer by 2040

This is Beirut, 15/04 13:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Cancer Uterus Medicine Denmark

Denmark aims to eradicate cervical cancer by 2040 thanks to a national HPV vaccination campaign and screening programme, the Danish Cancer Society said on Monday. "Even before 2040, so few women may have the disease that it may be considered eradicated," the Danish Cancer Society said in a statement. "It would be the first time a cancer has ...

Victor Ambros: From Skepticism to the Nobel Prize

Alain E. Andrea, 2024-12-10 19:40 - Reading : 7 minute(s)

Nobel Medicine Health

“All of my remaining realisable assets are to be disbursed as follows: the capital, converted to safe securities by my executors, is to constitute a fund, the interest on which is to be distributed annually as prizes to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.” These were Alfred Nobel's final ...

Search
Latest news