Surprising no one, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of a method for genome editing,” that is, the CRISPR/Cas9 system.
Surprising no one, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of a method for genome editing,” that is, the CRISPR/Cas9 system.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: New data cast doubt on post-resection radiotherapy for NSCLC; Carcinogens need not be mutagens; Myelin regulatory factor assists pancreatic cancer cells; Deepmedic provides glioblastoma segmentation with sparsified data.
Monday, Oct. 5, was probably the first day of 2020 that SARS-CoV-2 had serious competition for science media attention – by another virus. The Nobel Assembly awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine to Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles Rice “for the discovery of hepatitis C virus.”
Researchers at the Karolinska Institute have spurred neural stem cells to produce myelin-forming oligodendrocytes, facilitating repair after spinal cord injury.
