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Nobel Prize winners leave Bush in the dust The awards for the Nobel Prizes are being announced this week and last, and it is very interesting to note that the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Former Vice-President Al Gore (see below). And then we see that the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine has been awarded to three physicians, "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells". The winners, each sharing 1/3 of the prize, are: Mario R. Capecchi (USA) of the University of Utah; Oliver Smithies (USA) of the University of North Carolina; and Sir Martin J. Evans (United Kingdom) of Cardiff University, UK. What is especially interesting with these awards is that these prize winners have something in common: they all represent a slap in the face to George W. Bush (see the article by Matt Spetalnick, (Reuters) in the National Post). Al Gore is now getting his revenge; it is he who should have been the winner of the last presidential election but for some flim-flam with Florida voters. And the physicians for their work on stem cell research, which Bush has strenuously opposed to because of his bias against the use of embryos. And two of the physicians are American. (Note also my blog on the California research centre for stem cell research). Bush must be feeling rather low these days. My sincerest congratulations to these and all winners. Posted by Evelyn Dreiling on 10/12/2007 at 01:38 PM in News | Permalink Technorati Tags: Nobel Physiology or Medicine Prize Rayilyn Brown Board Member AZNPF Arizona Chapter National Parkinson's Foundation [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn