Nobel prize goes to pioneers of Lego-like ‘click chemistry’

Nobel prize goes to pioneers of Lego-like ‘click chemistry’

Scientists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for discovering reactions that let molecules snap together to create new compounds and that offer insight into cell biology. The field of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry has been harnessed to improve the targeting of cancer pharmaceuticals now […]

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Nobel physics prize won by sleuths of ‘spooky’ quantum science

Nobel physics prize won by sleuths of ‘spooky’ quantum science

Scientists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for their advances in quantum mechanics on the behaviour of subatomic particles, opening the door to work on super computers and encrypted communication. The awards were for given “experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering […]

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Research transforming our knowledge of dementia wins science prize

Research transforming our knowledge of dementia wins science prize

You and I might not look twice at nematodes, but for Anthony Hyman, winner of this year’s Körber European Science Prize, the obscure worms hold the answers to understanding how our cells work. “No one really cares about C. Elegans, but our research on them ended up impacting almost all biomedical research,” Hyman told DW. […]

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