India and the 2021 medicine Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for 2021 has been awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for discovering the receptors in the human body responsible for our ability to feel heat and…
Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology
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The Nobel intent
You've probably tired of this but I can't. The Nobel Prize folks just sent out a newsletter ahead of Women's Day, on March 8, describing the achievements of female laureates of each of the…
How an ancient Chinese text fought malaria and won a Nobel, while India lags behind
On October 5, Youyou Tu became only the 12th woman in history to be awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. She shared one half of the prize with William Campbell and Satoshi Omura, the dis…