Nobel prize for medicine 2005
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 2005 is awarded to the Australian scientists J. Robin Warren and Barry J. Marshall for the discovery of Helicobacter pylori.
Marshall infected himself with the bug to prove Koch's postulate, creating a lasting impression on me (and giving me the cramps really). It was also one of the first bacteria that we fully sequenced because there was little known about it 10 years ago. The Helicobacter field received copious amounts of grant money after the initial discovery, making it one of the research fields of bacteriology in the late 90s.
Marshall infected himself with the bug to prove Koch's postulate, creating a lasting impression on me (and giving me the cramps really). It was also one of the first bacteria that we fully sequenced because there was little known about it 10 years ago. The Helicobacter field received copious amounts of grant money after the initial discovery, making it one of the research fields of bacteriology in the late 90s.
spitshine - 2005-10-03 12:20
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