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Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner, South African-born biologist passes away
Sydney Brenner (92), a South African-born biologist, has passed away in Singapore on April 5, 2019. He helped decipher the genetic code and his research on a roundworm sparked a new field of human disease research. Brenner shared the Nobel Prize in medicine in 2002 for his contribution to work unraveling how genes control cell ..
Topics: Awards • Biology • Branches of biology • Caenorhabditis elegans • Fellows of the Royal Society • H. Robert Horvitz • Howard Hughes Medical Investigators • John Sulston • Knights Bachelor • Model organism • Sydney Brenner • Wellcome Trust
Nobel Prize – Chemistry
The winners of Nobel prize 2009 are Venkatraman Ramakrishnan , United States, Thomas A. Steitz United States, Ada E. Yonath Israel “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome” Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Born 1952 in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu He is a structural biologist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of the Medical Research Council ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2009
Topics: Ada • Ada Yonath • Current Affairs 2009 • Howard Hughes Medical Investigators • Laboratory of Molecular Biology • Learned societies • Nobel laureates • Ramakrishnan • Ribosome • Scientists • Steitz • Thomas A. Steitz • Venkatraman Ramakrishnan