UK: SYDNEY BRENNER AND SIR JOHN SULSTON OF BRITAIN AND ROBERT HORVITZ OF THE UNITED STATES AWARDED 2002 NOBEL PRICE FOR MEDICINE

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  • Title: UK: SYDNEY BRENNER AND SIR JOHN SULSTON OF BRITAIN AND ROBERT HORVITZ OF THE UNITED STATES AWARDED 2002 NOBEL PRICE FOR MEDICINE
  • Date: 8th October 2002
  • Summary: (U4) LONDON, ENGLAND (FILE) (JUNE 26, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF GENETIC RESEARCH CONFERENCE 0.06 2. SOUNDBITE (English) SIR JOHN SULSTON, 2002 NOBEL MEDICINE PRIZE WINNER, SAYING "Well I don't know about you but I for one didn't want my genetic information to be under the control of any one entity, any one corporation, technology has nothing to do with it the important thing is that this information remains in the public domain , so we had to fight, sadly , I regret very much that we had to fight but on the other hand I was very proud to do it, it has not been easy but that long phase is over and today as you know as we predicted we are celebrating announcements that will meant he fighting phase is over and we can celebrate the human genome as an entirely positive way as of this day" 0.51 3. SLV MEDIA AND AUDIENCE 0.56 (U4) HINXTON HALL, UNITED KINGDOM, UK (FILE 2000)(REUTERS) 4. SLV PAN/MV EXTERIOR VIEWS SANGER CENTRE AND SIGN (2 SHOTS) 1.10 5. SCU LABORATORY EQUIPMENT WITH TECHNICIANS PURIFYING DNA SAMPLES AS FIRST STAGE IN IDENTIFYING GENES; WORKERS IN LABORATORY; SCU SAMPLES; MV EQUIPMENT AND DNA PRINTOUT (9 SHOTS) 2.00 (W6) UNKNOWN LOCATION (FILE) (REUTERS) 6. SCU STILL PHOTOGRAPH OF ROBERT HORVITZ 2.10 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 23rd October 2002 13:00
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  • Location: LONDON/HINXSTON HALL, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
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  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVA3OCLIXOLXOD7MBU8J9NBNYJBR
  • Story Text: Sydney Brenner and Sir John Sulston of Britain and
    Robert Horvitz of the United States have been awarded the 2002
    Nobel Medicine Prize for work on how genes regulate organ
    development and cell death.

    The three will share the 1 million U.S Dollar prize for
    seminal discoveries into how genes affect organs and the death of
    cells, shedding new light on to the development of many
    diseases, Sweden's Karolinska Institute said in its citation
    issued Monday (October 7).

    Programmed cell death, or "cell suicide" is a natural
    process in which billions of cells die every day while a
    similar number of new ones are created to allow the body and
    its organs to develop.

    "Knowledge of programmed cell death has helped us to
    understand the mechanisms by which some viruses and bacteria
    invade our cells," the institute said. "We also know that in
    AIDS, neurogenerative diseases, stroke and myocardial
    infarction, cells are lost as a result of excessive cell
    death."
    Many researchers, including those focusing on cancer, are
    now investigating programmed cell death, and many treatments
    are based on stimulation of the cellular "suicide programme".

    Brenner, born in South Africa in 1927, Sulston, born in
    1942 and Horvitz, born in 1947, worked on roundworms to look
    into how genes control animal development and behaviour.

    Sir John Sulston is the director of the Sanger Institutee
    in England, which is focused on genetic research.


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