Tag: Sir John Gurdon

19th December 2012

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by Paul Johnston

Ambassador to Ireland

2012: 12 Highlights

This is my last blog of the year. Many thanks to all of you for taking the time to read my ramblings. Herewith twelve personal highlights from a fascinating, fun and fast-moving year in Sweden: January saw the first of many Ministerial visits this year. Lord Green, our Business Minister came for a big meeting […]

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12th December 2012

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by Paul Johnston

Ambassador to Ireland

FAILURES, FROGS AND FINDINGS, BRITAIN’S 2012 NOBEL LAUREATE

Today my blog in the Local, “The Diplomatic Dispatch”  lives up to its name, as I post the text of the diplomatic telegram I sent back to London yesterday about Britain’s Sir John Gurdon’s Nobel prize win. I presented John with a copy of the text yesterday and he liked it, so I hope it […]

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8th October 2012

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by Paul Johnston

Ambassador to Ireland

Medicines and modernisation

An appropriate issue to blog about on the day a British biologist, Sir John Gurdon, wins the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Sir John’s research on nuclear transfer in frogs in 1962 shattered the dogma that cells only develop in one direction – from young cells to mature cells.  He showed that differentiated or […]

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