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Sir Alexander Fleming, Sir Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Howard Walter Florey: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1945
Antibiotics are one of the common drugs prescribed by doctors Antibiotics are chemical substances which kill or inhibit growth of microorganisms Antibiotics have played a vital role in increasing the life expectancy of man One of the first antibiotics to be effectiv...
Telomeres - The Protective Caps on Chromosomes\
Editor 39 s Note Elizabeth Helen Blackburn an Australian-American Nobel laureate currently the President of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies studied the telomere a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome Blackburn co-disco...
Drs. Andrew Z Fire & Craig C Mello: The Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 2006
L-R Andrew Fire Mechanism of RNAi- where siRNA small interfering RNA generated from the dsRNA by Dicer recruits RNA interference silencing complex RISC to degrade the corresponding mRNA Craig C Mello Andrew Z Fire was born in 1959 He...
Prof. Elizabeth H. Blackburn: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2009
The Nobel winner says keeping telomeres the ends of our chromosomes in prime condition can stave off diseases associated with ageing Professor Elizabeth Helen Blackburn AC FRS FAA FRSN born 26 November 1948 is an Australian-American Nobel laureate cur...
