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Twenty years ago, Ruvkun and Ambros, then fellows working in the laboratory of MIT professor H. Robert Horvitz, began studying the genes that control the development of the Caenorhabditis elegans, a 1 mm-long roundworm that biologists often use as a model organism, from newly-hatched larva to fully-grown adult...
HMS’ Higginson Professor of Cell Biology Howard Green, who knew Horvitz since he began his current career as a professor at MIT over 20 years ago, described the Nobel laureate as “quiet, very diligent, very active, hardworking and serious...
Junying Yuan, a former graduate student of Horvitz and a HMS cell biologist, said she had predicted great things for Horvitz...
...Programmed cell death, or apoptosis, is so important that the Nobel committee decided Monday to award this year's prize in Physiology or Medicine to three researchers who have uncovered its genetic basis. H. Robert Horvitz, 55, an American who works at the Massachusetts Institute of technology will share the award with two Britons: Sydney Brenner, 75, of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, and Sir John Sulston, 60, of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, in Cambridge, England...
...genes were found to exist in the human genome as well. Nobody has yet turned these discoveries into treatments that can turn cell-death genes on or off at will to fight disease. But researchers are working on them. And if such precisely targeted medicines do finally become available, Horvitz, Brenner and Sulston will be largely responsible...