STOCKHOLM: Narcolepsy, cancer or mRNA vaccine research could win the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday when a week of announcements kick off, but experts see no clear frontrunner for the Peace Prize.
The awards, first handed out in 1901, were created by Swedish inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel in his 1895 will to celebrate those who have 'conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.'The Medicine Prize is first out, and will be announced in Stockholm on Monday around 11:30 am , followed by the awards for physics on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday.
Lars Brostrom, Ostman's colleague at SR, singled out two American biologists, Stanislas Leibler and Michael Elowitz, for their work on synthetic gene circuits which established the field of synthetic biology.It enables scientists to redesign organisms by engineering them to have new abilities.But Brostrom noted the field could be seen as controversial, raising 'ethical questions about where to draw the line in creating life.
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