Biology transformed: On the Nobel Prize in chemistry
The Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to David Baker for succeeding in the seemingly impossible feat of building new proteins
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Regulation role: On the 2024 Medicine Nobel
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology, or Medicine, awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, is for their discovery of microRNA, small
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Explained: The discovery that led to organocatalysis gold rush
What is catalysis? Catalysis is Catalysis is a term used to describe a process in the presence of a substance
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Nobel Prize for simple but brilliant discovery of asymmetric organocatalysis
The duo developed “a truly elegant tool for making molecules — simpler than one could ever imagine”. Since then, the
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Nobel Prize for sensing heat
The ability of our body to sense touch and temperature — both hot and cold — particularly noxious temperature, is
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CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology: In a first, an all-women team wins the Nobel Prize
That scientists who pioneered the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology, the biggest game-changer in biology in recent years, will win the Nobel Prize was never in doubt; it was only a question of when and who would get recognised for the work done to develop the tool.
Read MoreMedicine Nobel Prize: Decoding how cells sense oxygen
In the case of health people who have normal red blood cell count, the use of external erythropoietin is highly
Read MoreNobel Prizes – The lure of the exotic and esoteric
If “wonderful discoveries happening in biology” had acted as a trigger for Nobel Laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan to switch from physics
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Nobel Laureates to attend Nobel Prize Series in Gujarat in January 2017
The Nobel Prize Series has launched a long-term India programme to stimulate students’ creative thinking and engagement in science. A
Read MoreEditorial: How pathogens are killed
Published in The Hindu on October 7, 2011 Inside our body can be found the bloodiest of battlefields, where millions
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My exposure to Physics certainly helped me: Venki Ramakrishnan
For the last few years, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been given for research related to Biology. This year
Read MoreEditorial: Of mice and men
Published in The Hindu on October 19, 2007 The Nobel Prize for medicine awarded this year to three scientists is
Read MoreEditorial: Rewards of basic research
Published in The Hindu on October 7, 2006 The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded this year to Andrew
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