Three Scientists Share 2002 Nobel Medicine Prize

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Three Scientists Share 2002 Nobel Medicine Prize

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Sydney Brenner and John E. Sulston of Britain and H. Robert Horvitz of the United States won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology for discoveries concerning "genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death," Sweden's Karolinska Institute said on Monday.

The three will share the more than 1 million US dollars prize for the vital discoveries which are important for the medical research and have shed new light on the pathogenesis of many diseases.

Brenner, 75, a researcher at the Molecular Sciences Institute in Berkeley, California, the United States, broke new ground demonstrating that different mutations could be linked to specific genes and to specific effects on organ development, the institute said in a press release.

Brenner's discoveries laid the foundation for this year's prize, it added.

Sulston, 60, of the Sanger Centre Cambirdge, the United Kingdom,identified the first mutation of a gene participating in the cell death process.

Horvitz, 55, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, showed how the genes interact with each other in the cell death process and that corresponding genes exist in humans.

The medicine award was the first announcement of 2002 Nobel Prize for this week. The physics award will be announced Tuesday, chemistry and economics awards on Wednesday, and peace prize, the last award, on Friday.

The awards always are presented on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death in 1896.

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