News to Come from Stockholm ..NOBELS!!

What happens First Monday of October ..

The Nobel in decision will be awarded. Traditionally SJ receives the news as it is announced in Stockholm and we will post that at SJ.  Oddly, this year that event will follow yom kippur by one week! Maybe God will get the prize?

My bet for this year is a man named Shinya Yamanaka. Just three years ago he and his colleagues discovered four genes that can reprogram adult cells into stem cells!

Announcement time:
Monday, October 5
11:30 a.m. CET
09:30 a.m. GMT

alternative guesses:

Ruslan Medzhitov

 .. Toll Receptors

Brian Druker  


Glivec


Hood? 
Perhaps with Hunkapillar or Maynard Olsen or Phil Green? 

the code

Alec Jeffreys of the University of Leicester  DNA FINGERPRINTING







Update ,,, nomination by Garfield's ISI


Who do you think will win the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine?
Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak - 46%
Seiji Ogawa - 14%
Fred H. Gage - 13%
Rory Collins and
Sir Richard Peto - 7%
Other - 20%

Who do you think will win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
Michael Gratzel - 31%
Benjamin List - 12%
Gerald R. Crabtree and
Stuart L. Schreiber - 17% < maybe, could be in medicine as well. for combinatorial chemistry.
Daniel J. Danishefsky - 9%
Other - 30%


Science writer Karin Bojs of Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter:

Till and McCulloch stem cells
Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for telomerase

Goran K. Hansson, new secretary of the medicine prize committee, said the 10 million kronor ($1.4 million) prize isn't necessarily awarded for discoveries that have already resulted in new medicines or other practical applications.

'The Nobel committee has often awarded discoveries long before they have come to practical use,' he told The Associated Press. 'It is gratifying and very positive if there are applications within medical care but it is the actual discovery that is being awarded.'

He also said the committee doesn't consider the ethical implications of discoveries.

'We are awarding the discoveries and not the application and therefore those issues aren't of importance,' he said, adding it is a very difficult job to pick a winner.

'There are so many beautiful discoveries made today that it is a delicate task to chose the most important.'

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