The 2019 Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine
The 2019 Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine
The 2019 Nobel Prize for Medicine has been jointly awarded to three physician-scientists from the U.S. and Britain- William G. Kaelin, Gregg L. Semenza, Peter J. Ratcliffe for their pioneering research of how cells sense and to adapt to oxygen availability.
The discoveries by the trio illuminated how cells adapt to oxygen levels that are vital for life and mainly used to convert food into energy. Their discovery helps in explaining how, at high altitudes, the body adapts to thinner…