#Nobel Prize in Medicine

[mindblowingscience]

Scientists have always been fascinated by the question of human origins: When and where did modern humans—Homo sapiens—first appear? What distinguishes us from other members of the genus Homo and enabled us to develop such unprecedented culture and society?

Indeed, hardly any question fascinates humanity as much as our own roots. For thousands of years, clerics, scholars and philosophers have been racking their brains about where we come from, who are we and where are we going. The French painter Paul Gauguin was so captivated by that line of inquiry that he even dedicated a painting so named in the 19th century. The work, which deals with both the meaning and the transience of life, remains his most famous.

We have come a lot closer to answering these big questions thanks in part to the work of the paleogeneticist Svante Pääbo. He achieved what others had long thought impossible: he decoded the genome of Neandertals, a relative of modern humans who went extinct around 30,000 years ago. The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm honored him this year with the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for his contribution to the study of human evolution.

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[thatwizardofearthsea]

This year's award is so ironic. Many researchers would be discouraged to follow that research line nowadays since it wouldn't bring much grants or fame and glory. Ancient genomics are a forgotten field. You even can see that from the publicity of the winner, how many people are sharing about them? How many people shared other winners last years?

On one hand you ostracizes young researchers for being interested in "not popular" topics and basic techniques. On the other hand you award someone for non practical topics. So ironic and oxymoron.

[wausaupilot]

Wastewater concentration of coronavirus within Wausau watershed ‘very high’

COVID-19 deaths in the most recent week of data collection shows an upward trend of more than 8%.

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[higherentity]

[seagull-astrology]

J101 Dr. Alexis Carrel & the Dakin Solution

Before Dr. Alexander Fleming invented penicillin, Dr. Carrel developed the Dakin Solution, a type of hypochlorite solution made from diluted bleach and applied to decrease skin irritation. Chlorine, the active ingredient in Dakin’s solution, is a potent antiseptic that kills most forms of bacteria and viruses. This simple solution saved many men in World War they still use it and when people are…

[storynstory]

Nobel Prize for 3 Chemists

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this year was won by three scientists on Wednesday for creating a method of "snapping molecules together" that can be used to create better medications.....Watch Full Story

[ajsei]

The Nobel Prize Assembly at the Karolinska Institute has decided to award the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Svante Paabo…..

[johnlennonofficial]

In 1952, these two men, James Watson and Francis Crick, claimed to have discovered the double helical structure of DNA. In 1962, they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine.

Unbeknownst to most at the time, they stole their work from female chemist, Rosalind Franklin. These two men are disgusting misogynists. Science teachers of Tumblr, I beg you to stop posting photos of the men who actively suppressed a woman who made one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time.

[alphaketoglutaricacid]

love that marcille saw how miserable the ppl of the golden kingdom were that every one who had memories of living on the surface choose death rather than living for 1000 years and * she still was like im gonna wish for everyone to live 1000 years bc i know better than any one bc I am alone in my experiance AND i read it in a book once and got an A+ in that class.

i mean to decide to violate the autonomy of everyone on the planet. That takes vision. That takes ambition. #womeninSTEM

*under extreme duress and manipulation. She backslid.

[kingdrawcse]

Chemistry Behind Bacterial Disease

🔬In the early 20th century, bacterial diseases were a death sentence! But in 1932, Gerhard Domagk discovered the power of prontosil, a colorful azo dye, to treat deadly streptococcal infections. He saved his daughter's life and won the Nobel Prize in 1939🏆

Prontosil is an antibacterial drug of the sulfonamide group. It has a relatively broad effect against gram-positive cocci but not against enterobacteria.

[teachersource]

Gerty Cori was born on August 15, 1896. An Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist who in 1947 was the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. With her husband Carl and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, Gerty Cori received the Nobel Prize in 1947 for the discovery of the mechanism by which glycogen—a derivative of glucose—is broken down in muscle tissue into lactic acid and then resynthesized in the body and stored as a source of energy (known as the Cori cycle). They also identified the important catalyzing compound, the Cori ester.

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[thepastisalreadywritten]

A bronze statue of a laboratory mouse knitting a double helix of DNA in order to honor all the mice that were sacrificed for genetic research to develop new drugs to fight diseases.

It was designed by Andrew Kharkevich and is located in Siberia, Russia.

The monument was completed on 1 July 2013, coinciding with the 120th anniversary of the founding of the city.

The monument commemorates the sacrifice of the mice in genetic research used to understand biological and physiological mechanisms for developing new drugs and curing diseases.

Sculptor Alexei Agrikolyansky, who created the statue, confessed that it was challenging to capture this moment, as the mouse was obviously not human.

Nevertheless, he had to produce a character with believable emotions while maintaining anatomical proportions, avoiding it looking like a cartoon character or a real mouse.

The DNA spiral emerging from the knitting needles winds to the left, symbolizing the still poorly understood Z-DNA - representing the scientific research that is yet to be done.

In contrast, the more common B-DNA winds to the right.

The very first photograph of DNA was captured by a woman named Rosalind Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) using X-ray technology, allowing James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) and Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) to accurately characterize the double helix.

While they went on to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962, Franklin was not credited.

Sadly, she had passed away in 1958 from ovarian cancer, most likely caused by the high radiation exposure she endured while working with X-rays to capture the image of the double helix.

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[queer-reader-07]

do y’all have those things you do with your parents that are so routine that you forget that it’s not “normal”?

because for me it’s definitely that my dad and i email each other memes. and not in a “my dad is technologically inept” way, my dad has an engineering degree and has worked in tech for over 3 decades. no it’s more of a “he’s TOO technologically literate to not email me memes” way.

he only has facebook on his computer, so instead of figuring out how to get the memes to his phone to text them to me, he saves the images and emails them to me. and i love it but i do oftentimes forget that getting emails with shitpost memes from your father isn’t exactly normal

[storynstory]

Nobel Prize In Medicine Awarded For Research On Evolution

Nobel Prize In Medicine Awarded For Research On Evolution. The current year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medication has been granted to Swedish researcher Svante Paabo for his disclosures on human development.......Read More