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How Cells Sense Oxygen Levels: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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Scientific American

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4.2644 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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William Kaelin, Jr., Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza share the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.” New therapies for cancer and conditions such as anemia are in the pipeline, based on these discoveries.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.

0:02.3

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0:02.9

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0:05.6

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0:09.6

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0:11.1

It's free to sell on there?

0:12.3

Free to sell?

0:13.4

Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket.

0:16.8

You sold my guitar?

0:19.9

Shall we talk about Benning?

0:22.1

When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay.

0:26.7

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0:31.9

This is Scientific American Science Talk posted on October 7, 2019.

0:38.1

I'm Steve Merski.

0:40.5

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinski Institute that has today decided to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly.

0:52.5

Two, William Kalin, Sir Peter Ratcliffe and Greg Semenza,

0:58.8

for their discoveries of how cells sends and adapt to oxygen availability.

1:06.0

Thomas Perlman, Secretary of the Nobel Assembly, shortly after 5.30 a.m. Eastern Time.

1:11.6

Greg Semenza was born in 1956 in New York.

1:16.6

He performed his prize-winning studies at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he's still active.

1:24.6

Sir Peter Ratcliffe was born in 1954 in Lancashire in the UK. He performed his

1:33.1

prize-winning studies at Oxford University, and he's continuing to do his research at Oxford

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