SoT 76: 2012 Nobel Prizes

Published: Oct. 14, 2012, 6:27 a.m.

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Hosts:\\xa0Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Dr. Mick Vagg.

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2012 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine: \\xa0Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent".\\xa02012 Nobel Prize for Physics: Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems".\\xa02012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry: Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka "for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors". Chemistry vs Biology controversy. New painkillers could come from the super-toxic venome of the black mamba snake. Mosquitoes have adapted a way to get around mosquito nets.

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