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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. twat-waffle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    man.

    i'm going to be laughing about that for days.

    well, minutes.

    but still.

  2. Re:As an american by M.C.+Hampster · · Score: -1, Troll

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You so funny! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You so original! You make me laugh! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You funny man! I like you jokes! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Wow...my sides are hurting with that funny, funny quip you just threw down on us like some clever maniacal funny man! You so funny! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Someone even modded you as funny to show how funny you really are to the rest of us! Quip, quip says you! Everyone! Over here! Look at the funny man! He made a funny about cells being terrorists! Get it? cells...being...terrorists! HAHAHAHAHA! It's a reference to President Bush...yes, how he says everyone is a "terrorist". HAHAHAHAHA! Yes, I am not sure where this guy is from but boy is he funny! Who invited him to the party? We gotta have this guy over more often! Honey? Come down here a second and listen to this guy 'tell it like it is' in a really funny way. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Biological terrorism, that's priceless. "We must initiate a regime change." Gold. Just pure gold. How do you do it? I mean, so many people post on Slashdot but then you see a funny gem like this. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Pure hilarity. When's the last time you actually listened to President Bush and so wittily remarked about him? Had you not actually been politically informed then this wouldn't actually apply and hence your joke would 'have no teeth' as it were. But the brilliance of you tying in cell death to terrorism had me splitting my sides. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You funny man. So clever, so very very clever. I'll bet you were the funny man in high school too. Wow. You still got it!

    On a serious note, are the terrorism jokes ever going to end?

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  3. Cell suicide? by sssmashy · · Score: 0, Troll
    Their seminal work in the model organism C. elegans established the foundation of cell suicide as a normal physiologic process.

    I wonder if "cell suicide" applies to human stem cells as well? If so, someone should tell President Bush ASAP! We need to set up some kind of suicide hotline for them... it's the only way to save their little souls...