Martin J. Evans - Nobel Lecture

Gene modification in mice

The 2007 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine is awarded to Drs Mario R. Capecchi, Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells. Their work has made it possible to modify specific genes in the germline of mammals and to raise offspring that carry and express the modified gene. The ...

Muller's Nobel Prize Lecture: when ideology prevailed over science.

This paper extends and confirms the report of Calabrese (Calabrese, E. J. (2011b). Muller's Nobel Lecture on dose-response for ionizing radiation: Ideology or science? Arch. Toxicol. 85, 1495-1498) that Hermann J. Muller knowingly made deceptive comments in his 1946 Nobel Prize Lecture (Muller, H. J. (1946). Nobel Prize Lecture. Stockholm, Sweden. Available at http://www.nobelprize.org/. Access...

Development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems: from H+H₂ to biomolecules (Nobel Lecture).

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson” Paraphrasing Ralph Waldo Emerson, a 19th century New England philosopher and essayist, I shall try to show in this lecture how I have gone where there was no path and left a trail. It leads from trajectory studies of the reactions of small molecules to molecular dynamics simulations of ...

Nobel prize in physiology or medicine.

Event web site: http://www.oulu.fi/ltk/tutkimus/nobel Organizers: Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Biocenter Oulu, and Medical Research Center Oulu More information: Peppi Karppinen, [email protected] Where: Lecture Hall K101, Aapistie 7A When: Oct 3, 11:30 – 13:30 To whom: University and Hospital personnel, researchers, students © The Nobel Foundation ...

Helicobacter: the ease and difficulty of a new discovery (Nobel lecture).