A Prize for Symbiosis

A Prize for Proliferation

nomes if they are to proliferate indefinitely and retain All living organisms on this planet are descended by an the potential to differentiate into the specialized cell unbroken series of divisions to an ancestral cell that types of our bodies (Boveri, 1902). came into being over a billion years ago. The discovery Chromosomes have held center stage in the study of that we are all made of cells...

A Prize for Cancer Prevention

This year's Lasker-DeBakey Prize for Clinical Research to Douglas Lowy and John Schiller celebrates the science behind one of the greatest advances in the history of cancer research: the development of vaccines that prevent infection and thus prevent tumor induction by pathogenic strains of human papilloma virus (HPV).

A Prize for Membrane Magic

The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to James Rothman, Randy Schekman, and Thomas Südhof "for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells". I present a personal view of the membrane trafficking field, highlighting the contributions of these three Nobel laureates in a historical context.

A Nobel Prize for Property Rights Theory

This article provides a brief overview of the Property-Rights Theory of the firm, pioneered by Grossman and Hart (1986) and Hart and Moore (1990), and situates the theory in other literatures.

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