5 Scientists Recognized For Medical Advances
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NEW YORK -- Pioneers in psychotherapy and cell biology and three scientists who discovered a crucial enzyme linked to cancer and aging are being awarded prestigious medical prizes.
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The University of Hong Kong (HKU) announced the establishment of five medical research centers here Friday at the &quot;Frontiers in Biomedical Research, HKU 2004&quot; meeting.
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The government gave a dozen top universities about $100 million Tuesday to set up a network to speed scientific discoveries into better health care &#151; and try to transform how medical research is done.
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US scientists believe they have made a discovery which could mean a cure for more diabetic patients in the future. Some patients have already been cured by islet cell transplants, but a major obstacle is a
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Two Americans won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discovering a way to silence specific genes, a revolutionary finding that scientists are scrambling to harness for fighting illnesses as diverse as cancer, heart disease and AIDS.
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A system linking the some of the globe's best doctors with the developing world is saving lives.
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Discovery will speed research into incurable diseases such as diabetes and Parkinson's, and bring closer the mass production of body tissue to replace that damaged by disease.
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Anthony S. Fauci, a pioneering AIDS researcher, bioterrorism expert and high-ranking official at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, was one of four scientists named yesterday to receive the prestigious Lasker Foundation awards for medical research.
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A new breakthrough by Chinese scientists will further push forward the success rates for transplanting human marrow and tissue organs.
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Scientists say they have found a safer way of controlling genes to treat disease.
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Two Israelis and an American won the Nobel Prize in  Chemistry yesterday for discovering the method by which cells tag proteins that are defective or have outlived their usefulness and direct them to the cellular machinery that grinds them up into reusable parts.
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Interfering with RNA The 2006 Nobel Prize for Medicine will be shared by MIT's Andrew Fire and Harvard's Craig Mello for their detective work on the phenomenon of RNA interference (RNAi), which has the potential to revolutionise medicine.â¦
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New technology could lead to safer, more effective drugs.
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U.S scientists Richard Axel and Linda Buck have won the 2004 Nobel prize for medicine for research explaining how the human sense of smell works.
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The scientists who discovered how cells mark proteins for destruction receive the 2004 Nobel Prize for chemistry.
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The man who led the team that created Dolly the sheep is among the scientists recognised in the New Year Honours.
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Five years ago, Portland&#39;s Dr. Brian Druker told a gathering of blood scientists about a few dozen cancer patients who were taking an obscure new drug with surprising success.