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发帖数: 263 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: kevintang (kevinuk), 信区: Military
标 题: 剑桥大学教授英国生理学家 获2010诺贝尔医学奖
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Oct 4 10:51:00 2010, 美东)
10月4日，在瑞典首都斯德哥尔摩的卡罗林斯卡医学院，诺贝尔奖评审委员会宣布，英
国生理学家罗伯特·爱德华兹获得2010年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。新华社/法新
瑞典卡罗林斯卡医学院４日宣布，将２０１０年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖授予有“
试管婴儿之父”之称的英国生理学家罗伯特·爱德华兹。
今年８５岁的爱德华兹因创立体外受精技术而获得这一奖项。爱德华兹现在是英国
剑桥大学的教授。
体外受精技术俗称试管婴儿技术。医学统计显示，世界上每十对夫妇中就有一对有
生育问题，而试管婴儿技术可以帮助其中绝大多数夫妇实现有自己后代的梦想。自１９
７８年第一个试管婴儿路易丝·布朗呱呱坠地，全球已有４００万人通过试管婴儿技术
出生，其中许多人通过自然受精方式生育了下一代。
罗伯特·爱德华兹获得2010年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。10月4日，英国生理学家罗
伯特·爱德华兹获得2010年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。这是罗伯特·爱德华兹在英国剑桥
的资料照片（2008年7月12日摄）。新华社/法新
这是罗伯特·爱德华兹在英国剑桥的资料照片（2008年7月12日摄）。新华社/路透
10月4日，在瑞典首都斯德哥尔摩的卡罗林斯卡医学院，诺贝尔奖评审委员会宣布
，英国生理学家罗伯特·爱德华兹获得2010年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。新华社/路透 | l****o
发帖数: 2909 | 2 A British physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine, Robert G.
Edwards, won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for developing in-vitro
fertilization.
Edwards, 85, a former professor at the University of Cambridge in England,
will get the 10 million-kronor ($1.5 million) prize, the Nobel Assembly said
today in Stockholm. He won the Albert Lasker award for clinical medical
research in 2001. His research partner, Patrick Steptoe, died in 1988.
Edwards, who along with Steptoe created the first test tube baby in 1978,
conducted his reproductive research in the face of opposition from church
and government. He has now left Cambridge, a spokesman for the university
said. His health is frail and he isn’t available for interviews, said Mike
Macnamee, chief executive of Bourn Hall, the Cambridge clinic where Edwards
and Steptoe first performed IVF. Macnamee, who joined Edwards’s research
team in the early 1980s, said the two scientists were “pushing back
frontiers.”
“The work at Bourn Hall in those heady days was directed at making the
treatment more widely available and the patients were well aware that they
too were making history,” Macnamee said in an e-mailed statement. “There
are now over 4 million IVF babies worldwide as a result of the techniques
developed in Cambridge.”
Army Service
Edwards, who was born in Leeds, served in the British army in Jordan, Egypt
and Iraq before earning an undergraduate degree in zoology and agriculture
from the University of Bangor, Wales. He did postgraduate work at the
University of Edinburgh’s Institute of Animal Genetics.
As a young researcher, Edwards began work on mice reproduction. He studied
fertilized eggs collected from female mice, which tend to ovulate at night,
according to the Lasker citation. After three years of midnight visits to
the lab, he found a way to coax the animals to ovulate during daytime,
according to the citation. He also developed a way to prod dormant eggs to
mature outside the female’s body.
Edwards began working on humans by persuading gynecologists to give him
slices of human ovaries from women who underwent surgery. In 1969, he
published a paper in which he described having achieved fertilization
outside a woman’s body. He joined forces with Steptoe, who collected
ripened eggs directly from women’s ovaries.
Louise Brown
Edwards worked on fertilizing them in the lab. In 1972, they started trying
to place the eggs in the womb of infertile women. On July 25, 1978, Louise
Brown, the first test tube baby, was born using the procedure developed by
Edwards and Steptoe.
Last year’s Nobel prize in medicine went to Elizabeth Blackburn, a
professor at the University of California in San Francisco, Carol Greider
from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore and Jack
Szostak of Harvard Medical School in Boston, for research on cell division.
Annual prizes for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, peace and
literature were established in the will of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish
inventor of dynamite, who died in 1896. The Nobel Foundation was established
in 1900 and the prizes were first handed out the following year.
An economics prize was created in 1969 in memory of Nobel by the Swedish
central bank. Only the peace prize is awarded outside Sweden, by the five-
member Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo. | s********n
发帖数: 1124 | 3 杨82十年前说了，中国本土研究十年内就应该可以拿诺贝尔了。
估计明年就应该有中国本土科学家了，呵呵。
今年不是就有了吗？一哥们研究果蝠口交，发了一篇plos one的小文章，被评上诺贝尔
了，不过是Ig Nobel Prize。 | d********a
发帖数: 1852 | 4 搞笑诺贝尔奖拿到了，诺贝尔奖还会远吗？
要是唐骏，简历上早就写上了，不过Ig两个字母一定是要略去的。
【在 s********n 的大作中提到】
: 杨82十年前说了，中国本土研究十年内就应该可以拿诺贝尔了。
: 估计明年就应该有中国本土科学家了，呵呵。
: 今年不是就有了吗？一哥们研究果蝠口交，发了一篇plos one的小文章，被评上诺贝尔
: 了，不过是Ig Nobel Prize。
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