TWO Britons and an American have won science’s top prize for discovering how
living cells grow, divide and multiply.
Paul Nurse and Tim Hunt of the London-based Imperial Cancer Research Fund
have become the first Britons since 1988 to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine. They share the prize with Leland Hartwell, director of the Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
Each of the winners discovered key genes and proteins that orchestrate the
growth and division of cells—the cell cycle. This is such a fundamental
process in all plants and animals that their work is important…
