This year's Nobel Prize for organ development and programmed cell death

Martin Kucej • October 8, 2002

This year's Nobel Prize for organ development and programmed cell death
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``The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has 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.'

``This year's Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine have made seminal discoveries concerning the genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death. By establishing and using the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as an experimental model system, possibilities were opened to follow cell division and differentiation from the fertilized egg to the adult. The Laureates have identified key genes regulating organ development and programmed cell death and have shown that corresponding genes exist in higher species, including man. The discoveries are important for medical research and have shed new light on the pathogenesis of many diseases.''

More information:
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/2002/press.html

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Submitted by Sam Khalouei ; posted on Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Hello, I was wondering if there has been any nobel prize or equivalent awarded to someone working in a field related bioinformatics or computational biology. Thanks

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