CGC Bibliography Paper 5537

Celebrating death - the 2002 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine.

Barbour V

Medline:

12387956

Citation:

The Lancet 360: 1117- 2002

Type:

REVIEW

Genes:

Abstract:

The overwhelming complexity of higher organisms can make it hard to know where to begin to understand them. The three scientists who share this year's Nobel prize for physiology or medicine, Sydney Brenner (Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA), John Sulston (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK), and Robert Horvitz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, USA), all chose to study a far simpler organisms - the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans. Although multicellular, this organism reproduces rapidly and is transparent, so that each developmental stage can be seen clearly without the need for dissection.