Three scientists have been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize for Medicine in Stockholm for discovering how the body’s cells sense and react to low oxygen levels.
Two Americans, Professor William G Kaelin Jr, Professor Gregg L Semenza, along with British Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe will share the $1.35 million prize for their groundbreaking cellular research
The Karolinska Institute in Sweden, which awards the prize, said that the discoveries made by the three men had paved the way for promising new strategies to fight anaemia, cancer and many other diseases.