Monday, October 3, 2005

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005

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Helicobacter pylori

... goes to Australians Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren for the discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (pictured above) and "its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease". To learn more about peptic ulcer as an infectious disease, read the official press release of the Nobel Foundation.

More at Helicobacter pylori Research Laboratory...

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