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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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  7. As an american by Chundra · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    I must urge the free people of the world to root out these cells, and prevent their evil ways from spoiling our way of life. We must support a preemptive strike! We must initiate a regime change! How many more Americans must die because of these suicidal cells. It's biological terrorism and we must put a stop to it, or watch our children suffer.