The annual Nobel Prizes must “stand up” for scientific learning and free inquiry in an age when both are under growing threat ...

Victor Ambros (l) and Gary Ruvkun (r) share the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have shared this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their ...

After every meal, the intestines perform an action called peristalsis—moving food through their hollow interiors with ...

This year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three US pharmacologists for their discovery that the unstable gas, nitric oxide (NO), is an essential regulator of vasodilation.

Gerty Theresa Cori (1896-1957) was a trailblazing biochemist whose work fundamentally reformed our understanding of how cellular energy is stored and ...

On Oct. 2024, biologists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery and description of microRNA, an RNA fragment.Shannon Horning/ ...

If Andrea Ghez had listened to her critics, one of the galaxy’s greatest mysteries might yet remain unsolved. The UCLA astronomer won the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics for proving the existence of a ...

"in recognition of the contributions to our knowledge of cell chemistry made through his work on proteins, including the nucleic substances" ...

Your Neanderthal genes might be the reason you fight infections better- find out how ancient DNA shapes your health!

The Oregon Nobel Laureate Symposium returns to Linfield University’s McMinnville and Portland campuses April 10-11. The two-day program includes several events ...

The Nobel Prizes for medicine or physiology, physics and chemistry account for half the awards each year, with the others given for economics, literature and peace. Past science recipients ...