Clinical Treg use now possible: Sakaguchi in Nobel lecture
World 17:27 08/12/2025STOCKHOLM -- Shimon Sakaguchi, the Japanese winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, emphasized in a lecture Sunday that the clinical application of regulatory T cells he discovered in 1995 is possible now.
2025 Nobel prize in economics opens wider path for Vietnam’s future development
In-Depth 14:00 14/10/2025The 2025 Nobel prize in economics has been awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt for their work on how innovation and the forces of ‘creative destruction’ can drive economic growth and lift living standards, potentially inspiring Vietnam’s reform journey.
Nobel winner Kitagawa believes in 'useful uselessness'
World 16:34 09/10/2025KYOTO -- Susumu Kitagawa, a 74-year-old Japanese researcher who has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has words of Chinese thinker Zhuangzi to live by--something apparently useless is actually important.
Unreachable Nobel winner hiking 'off the grid'
World 10:56 07/10/2025One of this year's Nobel winners is a leading medical researcher who also offers a shining example of work-life balance -- so much so that he might not know he won.
Less razzmatazz, but Nobel Prizes go ahead amid pandemic
World 18:26 26/09/2020The winners of this year’s Nobel Prizes will miss out on a swanky gala in Stockholm surrounded by royalty and Sweden’s glitterati
2018 Nobel Literature prize postponed over Academy sex scandal
Travel 14:47 04/05/2018Misconduct accusations are being directed to the husband of a member from the Swedish Academy
Nobel for trio who took chemistry to cyberspace
World 22:00 09/10/2013Martin Karplus, a US-Austrian citizen, Michael Levitt, a US-British citizen, and Arieh Warshel of the US and Israel were honoured "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"
British "test tube baby" pioneer Robert Edwards dies
World 22:00 10/04/2013Edwards, who won the Nobel prize for medicine in 2010, started work on fertilisation in the 1950s, and the first so-called test tube baby, Louise Brown, was born in 1978 as a result of his research
