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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008 was divided, one half awarded to Harald zur Hausen "for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer", the other half jointly to Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier "for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus"
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US President Joe Biden. | Mandel Ngan/ AFP A group of over 170 world leaders and Nobel Prize winners have urged United States President Joe Biden to support a waiver proposing to suspend rules of intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines and treatments to boost global vaccination rates. India and South Africa had moved this proposal at the World Trade Organization in October. The letter, released to the media on Wednesday, said that the World Trade Organization’s waiver was important to bring an end to the Covid-19 pandemic. It said that the vaccine and related t...
Heart to Hands Food Drive collects 4,618 pounds of food The eighth annual Heart to Hands Food Drive collected 4,618 pounds of food Nov. 8 to Dec. 14, a 1,200-pound increase from 2019. Two hundred pounds of the food collected went to the UC San Diego Triton Food Pantry, along with a $200 contribution from an unidentified donor. Feeding San Diego received 1,140 pounds of donated food and the San Diego Food Bank received 2,758 pounds. The Heart to Hands Food Drive collected pet food for the first time, donating 520 pounds to the San Diego Humane Society. Over its eight-year history, the drive h...
Print Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith, the humble biochemist who helped revolutionize scientists’ ability to design drugs, grow vaccines, screen for disease and enrich crops, has retired as a senior researcher at the J. Craig Venter Institute in La Jolla. The 89-year-old Smith told the Union-Tribune that he is in declining health and is moving back to Maryland. It was there that his career took off in the 1960s when he discovered “molecular scissors” that can be used to study and alter DNA, the code of life. Smith has struggled to recover from lymphoma, which was discovered in his chest i...