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Cell Death Nets 2002 Nobel Prize in Medicine

Posted by timothy on from the two-minute-warning dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The recent press release at the Nobel website details the first of the 2002 Nobel Prizes. This year the Medicine prize goes to Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, and John E. Sulston for their discovery of programmed cell death (also called apoptosis). Their seminal work in the model organism C. elegans established the foundation of cell suicide as a normal physiologic process. The implications are wide ranging including understanding organ development and cancer."

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  1. Re:As an american by Paul+Komarek · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Don't worry, I'm sure President Bozo has already added suicidal cells to the axis of evil.

    -Paul Komarek

  2. Nobel prize for staring at worms by iabervon · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Back in first grade, they teased him when he would play with worms during recess. He swore he'd show them, and now...

    Millions of seven-year-olds were inspired today to poke at slugs and other slimy invertebrates.