India, Oct. 7 -- William Kaelin, Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza had described how a cell senses and adapts to the level of oxygen available
William Kaelin, Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza have been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for describing how a cell senses and adapts to the level of oxygen available.
William Kaelin is at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Peter Ratcliffe is from University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and Gregg Semenza is at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.
Semenza was studying the EPO gene for the hormone erythropoietin and found a specific DNA segment next to the gene which mediates the cell's response to oxygen.
A protein complex, which he call...