2013 Wiener Prize

COAP 2013 Best Paper Prize

JCS Prize. 2013 winner: Liam Cheeseman.

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2013 JCS prize is Liam Cheeseman for his paper entitled ‘Specific removal of TACC3–ch-TOG–clathrin at metaphase deregulates kinetochore fiber tension’ (Cheeseman et al., 2013). The prize, $1000, is awarded annually to a junior researcher who is the first author of the paper that is judged by the Editors and Editorial Board to be the best eligibl...

The Crafoord Prize in polyarthritis 2013.

For a long time, some aspects of the genetics of rheumatoid arthritis perplexed scientists. Different genes were of different importance to different people. When Robert J. Winchester and Peter K. Gregersen managed to understand why, they found a first clue as to how the disease can develop. With this knowledge as a base, Lars Klareskog later developed a hypothesis describing how the most commo...

Joint winner of the 2013 Philosophy prize essay competition

This article aimstoreviewthe standardobjectionstodualismandtoargue that either they will fail to convince someone committed to dualism or are flawed on independent grounds. I begin by presenting the taxonomyofmetaphysical positions on concrete particulars as they relate to the dispute between materialists and dualists, and in particular substance dualism is defined. In the first section, severa...

The nobel prize in physiology or medicine 2013.

Membrane Cargo molecules Proper functioning of the cells in the body depends on getting the right molecules to the right place at the right time. Some molecules, such as insulin, need to be exported out of the cell, whereas others are needed at specific sites inside the cell. Molecules produced in the cell were known to be packaged into vesicles (pictured in blue), but how these vesicles correc...