Three Americans — Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young — have won the 2017 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their work on molecular mechanisms that control circadian systems.

The 2024 Nobel prize in Physiology/Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. "This year's ...

UPDATE (Oct. 3, 8:30 a.m.): Yoshinori Ohsumi has won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Ohsumi is a 71-year-old Japanese scientist who received the honor for his work with autophagy. He did ...

American College of Lifestyle Medicine honors Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn for discovery of how lifestyle behaviors affect cellular aging ACLM's Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a lifetime of ...

I grew up during the heyday of molecular biology. How genes gave rise to specific proteins. How genes were regulated. How genes might one day be transferred from humans to other organisms to make ...

Ecological medicine is a new approach to health science that draws on a very old idea: connecting with each other, with ...

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2020 has been awarded to a trio of scientists for their pioneering work concerning the hepatitis C virus. The researchers’ work was instrumental in first ...

Timothy Hunt FRS and Sir Paul Nurse FRS of The Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, and Leland Hartwell of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA were today (8 October 2001) ...

The 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded Monday to Dr. William Kaelin and two others for their discoveries in how the body’s cells sense and react to oxygen levels. Associated Press ...

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo, for their efforts in the development of cancer immunotherapy. In the 1990s, the two Laureates ...

World War II’s fighting men have told frankly how it feels to be afraid (TIME, Dec. 25). Last week, in a report to the Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Lieut. Ralph E. Kirsch described not only ...