Word: karolinska
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...selection of the 1979 winners divided the house of Sweden's Karolinska Institute. The 15-member Nobel Selection Committee had sifted through nominees and sent a name or names to the full 54-member Nobel Assembly, but that choice was overturned after a lengthy debate. Though no rejected names were divulged, the schism was apparently an ideological one: some institute members insisted that winners be confined to scientists engaged in basic research, while others felt that achievements in medical technology should also be considered. The choice of the CAT-scanner pioneers seemed a perfect compromise. Their work with abstract...
Last week Sweden's Karolinska Institute underlined the importance of restriction enzymes by awarding the Nobel Prize for Medicine, this year worth $165,000, to a trio of pioneers in the field. The three, all microbiologists: Werner Arber, of the University of Basel in Switzerland, and Drs. Hamilton O. Smith and Daniel Nathans, Americans, both of Johns Hopkins University...
...award for basic medical research was shared by Drs. K. Sune Bergström and Bengt Samuelsson, both of Stockholm's Karolinska Institute, and Pharmacologist John R. Vane of Britain's Wellcome Research Laboratories. The three men were honored for their pioneering work in identifying and isolating prostaglandins. First thought to be produced only by the prostate gland-hence the name-prostaglandins are in fact manufactured and found everywhere in the body. They are like hormones and appear to regulate a wide variety of basic life functions, from controlling the clotting of blood and secretion of gastric acid...
Continuing the roll call of the 1975 Nobel Prizes, Sweden's Karolinska Institutet and Royal Academy of Sciences last week named ten winners (left to right, below), four of them Americans, in four different areas of science. Prizes in each category total...
...nutrients, resist biological attackers, reproduce and produce the products that their host organisms need in order to exist. Knowledge of the structural and functional organization of cells is essential to the understanding and control of most of the diseases to which man is heir. Last week Sweden's Karolinska Institute! honored the three men whose work has provided scientists with just such knowledge. The $125,000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Dr. Albert Claude, 75, of the Free University of Brussels' Institut Jules Bordet; Dr. Christian R. de Duve, 57, of New York...