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Nobel winner and organ transplant pioneer Joseph Murray dies at 93

11/26/2012 majac Your Health Matters

(Reuters) – Dr. Joseph Murray, the surgeon who carried out the first successful kidney transplant and later won a Nobel Prize for his work in medicine and physiology, died on Monday in Boston at the age of 93. Murray died after suffering a stroke last Thursday, Brigham and Women's Hospital spokesman Tom Langford said. Murray and his team completed the first human organ transplant in 1954, taking a kidney from one identical twin and giving it to his twin brother, opening a new field in medicine, the hospital said. "The world is a better place because of all Dr. Murray has given. …

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Eat chocolate, win the Nobel Prize?

10/10/2012 majac Your Health Matters

(Reuters) – Of all the chocolate research out there, the most unabashed tribute to the “dark gold” has to be a study just published in one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals. Drum roll, please. The higher a country’s chocolate consumption, the more Nobel laureates it spawns per capita, according to findings released in the New England Journal of Medicine. The Swiss, of course, lead the pack, closely followed by the Swedes and the Danes. The U.S. …

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Britain's Gurdon, Japan's Yamanaka share Nobel medicine prize for stem cell …

10/09/2012 majac Heart Disease

… won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for the groundbreaking discovery that cells in the body can be reprogrammed into completely different kinds, work that reflects the mechanism behind cloning and offers an alternative to using embryonic stem cells.
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Nobel prize to Briton, Japanese for stem cell work

10/08/2012 majac Your Health Matters

Two scientists from different generations won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for the groundbreaking discovery that cells in the body can be reprogrammed to become completely different kinds, potentially opening the door to growing customized tissues for treatments.

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Alternative Nobel Prize winners: Russian scientists explain coffee spills and …

09/21/2012 majac Heart Disease

Nobel Prize laureate for Economics in 2007 Eric Maskin (L-R), Nobel Prize laureate for Medicine in 1993 Richard Roberts, Nobel Prize laureate for Chemistry in 1986 Dudley Herschbach, keynote speaker Robert Kirshner and Nobel Prize laureate for Physics …
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Italian Nobel medicine winner Dulbecco dies at 97 (AP)

02/20/2012 majac Your Health Matters

AP – Renato Dulbecco, who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in medicine for his seminal research on the interaction between tumors and cells, has died in California. He was 97.

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Beutler, Hoffmann, Steinman share Nobel (AP)

10/03/2011 majac Your Health Matters

AP – Three scientists whose research on the immune system opened up new avenues for prevention and treatment of infections, cancer and inflammations won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday.

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