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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. In english, please! by dildatron · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    and i quote:

    The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2002 jointly to

    Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston

    for their discoveries concerning

    "genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death"


    Proof positive that they should have gone into marketing rather than genetics...

    --


    If you had nuts on your chin, would they be chin nuts?
  2. 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

  3. 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.