Nobel Prizes 2015

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Key Studies on How DNA Gets Damaged and Repaired Win Chemistry Nobel

Vasudevan Mukunth 07/10/2015

Lindahl, Modrich and Sancar richly deserve their award, but...

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The Secret Maoist Chinese Preparation that Conquered Malaria – And Won a Nobel

Jia-Chen Fu 07/10/2015

Project 523’s embrace of the traditional body of knowledge...

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Physics Nobel Rewards Neutrino Work, But Has Sting in the Tail for India

Vasudevan Mukunth 06/10/2015

The delay in the commissioning of the India-based Neutrino...

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Physics Nobel for Discovery that Proved Neutrinos Have Mass

Vasudevan Mukunth 06/10/2015

As neutrino astronomy comes of age, the Nobel Foundation...

The discoveries of potent cures against elephantiasis, river blindness and malaria has won the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine, 2015. Source: nobelprize.org

2015 Nobel for Medicine Rewards Seminal Old Cures for Parasitic Diseases

Deepak Natarajan 06/10/2015

The award was bagged by Youyou Tu for her...

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How an Ancient Chinese Text Fought Malaria and Won a Nobel, While India Lags Behind

Vasudevan Mukunth 05/10/2015

RSS-inspired ideologues have reinterpreted many sections of India's great...

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Too Soon for a Nobel Prize for Gene Editing?

Nandita Jayaraj 04/10/2015

Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier saw a neat bacterial...