The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is the highest award for scientific achievements in this field, which is annually awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.

Pity the Nobel committee now trying to make its selection for the next prize in physiology or medicine, soon to be announced. The committee has a very difficult task. The five-member group at the ...

Salvador Luria was an Italian American microbiologist who shared his lab with Dulbecco in Bloomington after fleeing World War ...

Victor Ambros (l) and Gary Ruvkun (r) share the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have shared this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their ...

This year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three US pharmacologists for their discovery that the unstable gas, nitric oxide (NO), is an essential regulator of vasodilation.

Lauterbur of the University of Illinois and Sir Peter Mansfield of Britain’s University of Nottingham—had been nominated for the coveted Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Knowing that the ...

The answer is: more people than you might think. The Nobel Prize is awarded in five categories—physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace—by committees who rely on nominations ...

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, pioneering geneticist and co-winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, recently published her first book for a popular audience. Coming to Life (Kales ...