For centuries, onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, had plagued remote communities in Africa, Latin America, and Yemen. Lifelines for villagers, the rivers are breeding grounds for black flies that, when infected with a parasitic worm, transmit the disease through repeated biting. In return, those infected transfer the disease to uninfected flies who bite them, resulting in a plague characterized by extreme itching and eventual blindness.
That the simple chore of getting water in these communities is no longer as much of a danger as it had been for generations is due to William “Bill” Campbell, an Irish-born scientist who, with his colleagues at Merck Research Laboratories, discovered a novel therapy for treating the disease. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with Satoshi Ōmura of Japan.
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By Walter Isaacson
The coronavirus pandemic forced Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier to accept the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry virtually, instead of actually attending the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciencesâ annual December ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall, where the king of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf, would have given each of them an 18-karat gold medal along with a congratulatory handshake. This yearâs gala, like so many events everywhere, was canceled for the first time in decades.
The landmark research that brought Doudna and Charpentier to the pinnacle of global acclaim has the potential to control future pandemics â either by outwitting the next viral plague through better screening and treatment or by engineering human beings with better disease resistance programmed into their cells. The technique of gene editing that they patented, which goes by the unwieldy acronym of CRISPR-Cas9, makes it possible to selectively snip and alter bits of DNA as t
Crown Princess Victoria wows in H&M gown as she receives honour at LGBTQ awards
By Heather Cichowski The
coronavirus pandemic has meant there are less opportunities for people to dress up as they stay safe at home. This also applies to royals around the world, where formal events have been cancelled entirely or turned virtual. So, it was delightful to see
Crown Princess Victoria dressed up in a new portrait released by Kungahuset to coincide with a
LGBTQ honour she received.
Swedish royal was voted one of the winners at
QX magazine s Gay Gala, following a speech she gave at the inauguration of Stockholm Pride in 2020. Unfortunately, the gala was cancelled due to