New Nobel Lab 360°: Brian Kobilka
Brian Kobilka, 2012 Nobel laureate in chemistry, takes you on a fascinating tour through his laboratory.Brian Kobilka, 2012 Nobel laureate in chemistry, takes you on a fascinating tour through his laboratory.
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Nature Outlook 2014: Medical Research Masterclass (from Lindau)
Nature once again has published a special supplement on occasion of the Lindau Meeting – this time taking you on a trip to the frontiers of medical research.
New Drugs for old Bugs (Drug Development – Yonath & Kobilka)
We should all be worried by the growing number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and we urgently need to develop new drugs, says Ada Yonath. She and Brian Kobilka won Nobel Prizes for using x-ray crystallography to understand cell structures that are vital targets for drug development. In this film, three researchers challenge the structural approach and […]
The quiet American
In conversation Brian Kobilka is shy, self-effacing, modest and mild-mannered. In his work he is a tour de force of science who has chipped away at an unyielding problem for more than twenty years until it gave way and got him the Nobel Prize. Kobilka and his fellow prizewinner Robert Lefkowitz were honored for their […]
Nobel Prize-winning science from llamas to rejections
Brian Kobilka of Stanford University won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2012 for work on G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), which are main targets for making new drugs. GPCRs sit on cell walls and are involved in conveying chemical messages from outside the cell to the inside. If cells gets the message wrong, it may […]
When chemists meet they talk about drugs
“You can make crystal meth in your lab?” asked my housemate who was pursuing a PhD in computer science. “Yes, it’s a fairly simple molecule. I haven’t looked but I bet that I won’t have trouble finding the chemicals needed to make it,” I said. At the time I was a lowly graduate student pursuing […]
Brian and Bob’s GPCR symphony
Brian Kobilka and Robert Lefkowitz received the 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry for telling us how the molecular musicians in living organisms play the tune of life. Almost any molecular mechanism in our body provides an illuminating example of a superbly choreographed ballet, but Kobilka and Lefkowitz shed light on the motions of one of […]