Day: October 8, 2008

From the NY Times (empha­sis added by me): The Nobel Prize in Med­i­cine was award­ed Mon­day to three Euro­pean sci­en­tists who had dis­cov­ered virus­es behind two dev­as­tat­ing ill­ness­es, AIDS and cer­vi­cal can­cer.  The oth­er half of the $1.4 mil­lion award will go to a Ger­man physi­­cian-sci­en­tist, Dr. Har­ald zur Hausen, 72, for his dis­cov­ery of H.P.V.,… Con­tin­ue read­ing 2008 Nobel for Medicine