Tag: nobel prize

January 3, 2021

Control, cut, CRISPR – how bacteria won this year’s Nobel prize

Holly Leslie reflects on the origin of this year’s Nobel prize-winning, CRISPR-Cas9 technology, and explores how scientists are beginning to use gene editing approaches on their quest for new medical treatments in hereditary disease.

Features / Opinion / Social Sciences

June 9, 2018

Let’s Hear it for the Women of Science

Kirstin Leslie explores a brief history of female scientists and how inspiring women are helping to shift perceptions.

Features / Life Sciences

December 9, 2015

The rise of Artemisinin: the malaria wonder-drug

Katherine McPhie investigates how the ancient herbal Artemisia annua plant became the life-saving medicine of millions.

Life Sciences / Snippets

October 25, 2014

And the 2014 Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to…

Congratulations to John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser on being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of the brain’s navigation system. How does our brain create maps of...