Friday, October 28, 2005

The 2005 Nobel Prize in Medicine


the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease.

今年諾貝爾獎是頒給發現幽門螺旋桿菌(Helicobacter pylori)跟胃潰瘍相關的華倫(J. Robin Warren)和馬歇爾(Barry J. Marshall)幽門螺旋桿菌至今已經發現與潰瘍、胃癌有高度的相關性,並且感染者顯示出輕重不一的病狀,據統計世界上約百分五十的人帶有此細菌。近幾年德、美包括台灣正積極瞭解幽門螺旋桿菌的分子機制,更進一步知道其致病機轉。


more about it in Taiwan:
  • HP project in NTHU

  • WCWang's strucuture biology research of HP
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