2007 Nobel and IgNobel Prizes in Medicine October 8, 2007
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Fun, Invention, Medicine, science.trackback
Congratulations to Mario R. Capecchi, Oliver Smithies, and Sir Martin J. Evans for winning this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine “for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells“! Here are some quality posts about it:
- 2007 Nobel Prize in Medicine Goes To Mice Geneticists (Eye on DNA)
- Of Mice, Men and the Nobel Prize for Medicine (Highlight Health)
- The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Sandwalk)
The winners of the 2007 IgNobel prizes for improbable research were also announced (hat tip: BabyLab):
MEDICINE: Brian Witcombe of Gloucester, UK, and Dan Meyer of Antioch, Tennessee, USA, for their penetrating medical report “Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects.”
REFERENCE: “Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects,” Brian Witcombe and Dan Meyer, British Medical Journal, December 23, 2006, vol. 333, pp. 1285-7.
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