Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien: New knowledge about a cancer pharmaceutical led to the Sjöberg Prize
MALMÖ, Sweden, Feb. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Benjamin L. Ebert, USA, receives this year s Sjöberg Prize, worth one million US dollars, for his research into how lenalidomide works as a treatment for blood cancer. His discovery of the mechanism that promotes protein breakdown in cancer cells may be vitally important to the future development of new pharmaceuticals.
The story of this pharmaceutical begins with a tragedy as, in the 1950s and 1960s, pregnant women with severe morning sickness were sometimes given thalidomide. This caused a range of birth defects and the medication was removed from the market.
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STEM CELLS reveals a unique population of skeletal stem cells (SSCs) that function during the transitional period between rapid bone growth and bone maintenance. This discovery provides an opportunity to determine whether alterations in the SSCs pattern might affect bone formation, as well as helps us understand the physiological factors that regulate its timing. This is particularly important given that anything that interferes with the proper development of bone mass during childhood and adolescence has long-lasting effects on our health, including the development of osteoporosis in adults, said corresponding author Diana L. Carlone, Ph.D., of Boston Children s Hospital and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.
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Getting to the root of why hair goes gray
Marlene Cimons, The Washington Post
Dec. 19, 2020
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Marco Kaltofen, 61, says he first started noticing white hairs at 11. His hair was completely white by the time he reached his 30s. White hair is part of my identity, and I am completely at peace with it, he says.photo for The Washington Post by Katrina Goldsaito.
Marco Kaltofen was 11 when he noticed his first white hairs. As his hair grew whiter, his middle-school friends started calling him the professor. By his mid-30s, it was completely white, as it had been for three of his grandparents. His parents went white in their 40s, so I had no chance of avoiding this, Kaltofen says.
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