John Vane, Nobelist Who Helped in Deciphering Aspirin, Dies at 77
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Dr. John R. Vane helped advance new therapies for heart and blood vessel disease and contributed to the development of two classes of widely prescribed drugs.
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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
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U.S. scientists Richard Axel and  Linda Buck won the 2004 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology  on Monday for work on genes that control the sense of smell --  explaining how we recall months later the scent of a lilac.
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A Northern Ireland-born heart expert whose pioneering techniques saved countless lives dies at the age of 88.
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Nagib Mahfuz, Egypt's most celebrated author and the only Arab to win the Nobel prize for literature, has died at the age of 94, several weeks after his health suddenly deteriorated.
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Two American scientists -- one of whom graduated from Fairfax High School -- awakened early yesterday to learn they will share a Nobel Prize for their discovery of a gene-regulating mechanism inside cells, an advance that in just eight years has revolutionized genetics and led to several...
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Swedish Nobel Prize laureate Sune Bergstroem, who shared the 1982 medicine award for research that led to new treatments for ulcers and menstrual pain, has died.
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Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, the  only writer in Arabic to win the Nobel Prize for literature,  died on Wednesday in Cairo aged 94, doctors said.
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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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Researchers have discovered the exact mechanism behind the death of brain cells following a stroke.
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Julius Axelrod, a National Institutes of Health neuroscientist who won the Nobel Prize for his work on how nerve cells communicate and affect behavior, has died. He was 92.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Israelis Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko and American Irwin Rose won the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for discovering a key way cells destroy unwanted proteins - starting with a chemical "kiss of death."   When the process goes wrong, several hundred diseases can result, including cervical cancer and cystic fibrosis. So the work provides the basis for developing new therapies...
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Two Americans are sharing this year s Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine. Richard Axel and Linda Buck are being recognized for their work studying the biology of the sense of smell.
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The Nobel Prize-winning scientist who helped discover the molecular structure of DNA has become the first person to receive his own personal genome map.
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SEATTLE, WASH., October 19, 2004--A Stony Brook University researcher is testing a new form of aspirin--one that is much more potent than its commercially available counterpart, but with almost none of the side effects--to determine whether it can be used
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Only two Canadians have ever won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. The first was Sir Frederick Banting, who shared the 1923 award for the discovery of insulin with a Scottish doctor working in Toronto.
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Two US scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for their pioneering work in genetics.