Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston was announced in Stockholm this morning.
The winners were recognised for their work in understanding how genes play a role in determining how organs develop and removing old cells so as to keep organs just the right size.
Although their initial work was all done in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, they went on to show that equivalent genes exist in other species, including humans.
