Oct 02 Three Americans win 2017 Nobel Prize in medicine for research on circadian clocks By Nsikan Akpan Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young won the 2017 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for their research into what controls circadian rhythms. Continue reading
Oct 03 Watch 4:22 News Wrap: Winds top 140 mph as Hurricane Matthew bears down By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, Hurricane Matthew, one of the strongest Atlantic storms in recent years, is battering Jamaica and Haiti. Also, U.S. relations with Russia hit a new low when Washington called off talks with Moscow on the Syrian… Continue watching
Oct 03 Why this Japanese scientist won a 2016 Nobel Prize in medicine for cell 'self-eating' By Nsikan Akpan Cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi wins the 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discoveries in autophagy. Wait, what's autophagy?… Continue reading
Oct 06 Pinpointing brain's inner GPS leads to Nobel Prize in medicine win By Justin Scuiletti The research, started by scientist John O'Keefe in 1971 and continued by the husband-and-wife team of May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser more than 30 years later in 2005, aimed to explore the mechanics of how humans were able to… Continue reading