It’s finally October - and Nobel Prize season. On Monday the Nobel committee announced the winners of the prize for Physiology or Medicine. The three recipients, two Americans and one Brit, won for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to low levels of oxygen, a state called hypoxia.
Sadeesh K. Ramakrishnan, a professor of medicine, explains why the win thrilled his colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh and why understanding how cells deal with oxygen fluxes – caused by exercise, injury or even high altitudes – has implications for many diseases, including cancer and anemia.
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Sadeesh K. Ramakrishnan, University of Pittsburgh
Oxygen is vital for life, so much so that cells can sense when there isn't enough and adapt almost instantly. So how do they do it? The winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology figured it out.
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