Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston. This knowledge provided the underpinnings for deciphering the role of cell death in human physiology. Because immunologists were already grappling with ...

Robert Horvitz, John Sulston and Sydney Brenner are the recipients of this year's Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine. The prize was awarded for development of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis ...

Ambros and Ruvkun were postdoctoral fellows in the 1980s in the laboratory of biologist Robert Horvitz, who won the Nobel ...

In a move that many will regard as long overdue, the Nobel committee honoured Sydney Brenner with the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. John Sulston and Robert Horvitz will share the prize that ...

"There were a number of papers that had suggested a relationship between cell death and oncogenesis, but it was this tie between ced-9 and bcl-2 that really put the nail in the coffin," comments ...