This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine has been awarded to three physician-scientists for their discoveries on ‘how cells sense and adapt to oxygen and availability’. The award was shared by William Kaelin Jr at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard University in Massachusetts, Sir Peter Ratcliffe at Oxford University and the Francis Crick Institute in […]

Image tweeted by @Nobelprize Two scientists who discovered new approaches in harnessing the immune system to fight cancer won the 2018 Nobel prize for Medicine. James Allison of the U.S. and Tasuku Honjo of Japan will share the Nobel prize sum of nine million Swedish kronor (about $1.01 million). “Allison and Honjo have shown, how […]