The 2008 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced this morning.
The winners are HPV and HIV (OK, OK, the people who discovered them) - the year of the virus!
I don't pay much attention to these, as biology I care about has not received the prize since 1973, but I was happy to hear about a different kind of connection I have with one of this year's winners - Francoise Barre-Sinouss recently published a paper in PLoS ONE - this one: The CD85j+ NK Cell Subset Potently Controls HIV-1 Replication in Autologous Dendritic Cells
Well, if it's good enough for a Nobel prize winner, it's good enough for everyone, I'd say.... ;-)
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Each year The World's Fair bestows its top honor at the end of December, or early January.
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The winners of the NESCent blogging competition were announced yesterday.
Here are some interesting stats, courtesy of Intel:
Out of over 1,500 finalists, there were 547 individual award winners. Of these, 235 were female and 312 were male. 129 were international, and 418 were US winners (including 8 from Puerto Rico and 1 from the Virgin Islands).