Nobel Prize in Chemistry: How protein discoveries benefit research at BASF

Computational protein design and protein structure prediction speed up day-to-day research

05-Dec-2024 - On December 10, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will award this year’s Nobel Prizes in Stockholm, Sweden. The prizes for chemistry this year are all about proteins, considered the building blocks of life. David Baker (University of Washington, Seattle, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, ...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of microRNA

Surprising discovery revealed an entirely new dimension to gene regulation

07-Oct-2024 - The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. This year’s Nobel Prize honors two scientists for their ...

AI-driven breakthroughs in cells study: advancements in super-resolution microscopy

By integrating AI with super-resolution microscopy, cellular biology is advancing in new and exciting ways

12-Dec-2023 - In 2014, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry celebrated the breakthroughs in super-resolution microscopy, a technology that allows us to capture highly detailed images of small parts of cells using fluorescent microscopy. Despite its success, the resolution of super-resolution microscopy still can’t ...

UK approves world's first therapy with gene scissors

Developers of the Crispr method were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2020: a drug using the gene scissors has now been approved for the first time

17-Nov-2023 - (dpa) In the UK, a drug based on the gene-scissor technology Crispr has been approved for the first time worldwide. This was announced by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) on Thursday. The drug, called "Casgevy", has been approved for the treatment of sickle cell ...

Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 goes to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier

The laureates’ contributions have enabled the investigation of processes that are so rapid they were previously impossible to follow

04-Oct-2023 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 to Pierre Agostini (The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA), Ferenc Krausz (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany) and Anne L’Huillier (Lund ...

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman receive Nobel Prize for discoveries in the fight against corona

04-Oct-2023 - The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. The ...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry

Nobel Prize goes to a trio of researchers from the USA and Denmark

05-Oct-2022 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 to Carolyn R. Bertozzi (Stanford University, CA, USA), Morten Meldal (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and K. Barry Sharpless (Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, USA) “for the development of click ...

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022 goes to Svante Pääbo: What makes us uniquely human?

Nobel Prize for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution

03-Oct-2022 - Humanity has always been intrigued by its origins. Where do we come from, and how are we related to those who came before us? What makes us,Homo sapiens, different from other hominins? Through his pioneering research, SvantePääboaccomplished something seemingly impossible: sequencing the ...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis

An ingenious tool for building molecules

06-Oct-2021 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 to Benjamin List, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany and David W.C. MacMillan, Princeton University, USA “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”. Building ...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021 awarded to US scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian

How do we perceive the world?

04-Oct-2021 - The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch. Our ability to sense heat, cold and touch is essential for survival and ...