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2019 Nobel Prize for Medicine
October 7 , 2019
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- Britain’s Peter Ratcliffe and William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza of US shared the 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize for their work on how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.
- The team revealed the understanding of how oxygen levels affect cellular metabolism.
- They identified the molecular machinery that regulates the activity of genes to varying levels of oxygen.
- It has paved way to understand the strategies to fight cancer, anaemia and other diseases.
- Based on their findings pharma companies are now on the path of developing drugs that can interfere with “disease states” by activating or blocking the oxygen – level in the cells.
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