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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded Oct. 7 to a team of scientists who discovered how the body's cells transport molecules to the right locations. The advance joins a long line of biological breakthroughs, from the discovery of DNA's structure to the development of in vitro fertilization.This year's Nobel prize honors American scientists James Rothman of Yale University and Randy Schekman of the University of California, Berkeley, as well as German-born scientist Thomas Sdhof of Stanford University, for their discoveries of the molecular principles that govern how molecules, such as the hormone insulin, arrive at the right place at the right time.Since the prize's founding in 1901, the Nobel committee has awarded 104 medicine prizes to 204 people. Here are a few of the most memorable. [ The 7 Biggest Mysteries of the Human Body ]1. Diphtheria and tetanus treatmentThe first Nobel prize for medicine or physiology was awarded in 1901 to German researcher Emil von Behring...
Lesley Brown, the mother of the world’s first baby born through in vitro fertilization, died June 6 in Bristol, England at age 64, the New York Times reported. Brown...
Fewer than eight percent of all tries at making a baby in a lab dish will succeed, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.A review of all their efforts to unite egg and...
Los inmunólogos estadounidense Bruce A. Beutler, francés Jules A. Hoffmann y canadiense Ralph M. Steinman son los ganadores del Premio Nobel de Medicina 2011, inform...
La música reunió hoy en el Concert Hall de Estocolomo a los Premios Nobel 2010, entre ellos el merecedor del galardón del Literatura, el escritor peruano Mario Varga...
FNC medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel on the costs and ethical concerns of fertility treatments.
Test-tube baby pioneer Robert Edwards of Britain has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine.
Many children have heard they were “miracle babies,” but Louise Brown was one in every essence.Thirty years ago, her mother Lesley Brown underwent the first in-vitro...
British professor Robert Edwards, this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, will not be able to travel to Stockholm to receive his award becau...
Un alto funcionario del Vaticano dijo el lunes que el nuevo Premio Nobel de Medicina Robert Edwards abrió un "importante capítulo en el campo de la reproducción huma...
Imprisoned Chinese democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobo on Friday won the Nobel Peace Prize — an award that immediately inspired China's political dissidents and drew fur...
Two Russian-born scientists shared the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for groundbreaking experiments with the strongest and thinnest material known to mankind — a...
An American and two Japanese scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for finding new ways to bond carbon atoms together, methods now widely used to ...
Robert Edwards of Britain won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for developing in-vitro fertilization, a controversial breakthrough that ignited sharp criti...
Robert Edwards of Britain won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for developing in vitro fertilization, a breakthrough that has helped millions of infertile ...
Robert Edwards, a British Nobel prize-winning scientist known as the father of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) for pioneering the development of "test tube babies", die...
More tries aren't necessarily better when it comes to in vitro fertilization.New research found that about 1 in 3 women had a baby the first time they tried a test t...
The Vatican's top bioethics official said Robert Edwards, who received the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for developing in vitro fertilization, opened "a new and im...
Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:— 2010: British researcher Robert Edwards for the ...
Robert Edwards honored for medical 'milestone'
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