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The Geneticist Mary-Claire King, Princess of Asturias Research Award for Her Commitment to Science and Human Rights
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The Washington Hispanic
udgtvThe American Mary-Claire King was awarded this Thursday in Spain with the Princess of Asturias Prize for Scientific and Technical Research, for her application of genetics to cancer prevention, contributing “to saving millions of lives”. “Dr. King’s studies have allowed us to establish for the first time the close relationship between a particular gene and the risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer, thus contributing to saving millions of l…
The American geneticist Mary-Claire King, who has helped save millions of lives with the early treatment of some tumors by having discovered more than three decades ago the genes that cause some types of breast and ovarian cancer, has been distinguished this Thursday in Spain with the Princess of Asturias Prize for Scientific and Technical Research 2025. That “pioneer’s contribution in the application of genetics to the study and prevention of c…
American biologist Marie-Claire King, born in Chicago 79 years ago, has won the Princess of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research for her essential contributions in fields such as human evolution, cancer genetics, and the use of DNA to defend the victims of dictatorships. Her findings have helped save “millions of lives,” the jury highlighted.
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SIC NotíciasIn the meantime, the jury says that the work of the geneticist allows "to establish for the first time the close relationship between a specific gene and the risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer".
American geneticist Mary-Claire King, recognized for having identified the genes that cause some types of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer and for having demonstrated that humans and chimpanzees are genetically identical by 99 percent, has been awarded on Thursday with the Princess of Asturias Prize for Scientific and Technical Research 2025.Mary-Claire King (Chicago, 1946) has also highlighted the use of dental genetics to identify missing …
The jury recognizes the American scientist for having contributed to saving millions of lives and for putting her specialty in the service of human rights, helping the family reunification of missing persons Hemeroteca - Thus began the oldest screening of cancer: “The priest warned at Mass that women would come to the mammographer” American geneticist Mary-Claire King has received the Princess of Asturias Prize for Scientific and Technical Resea…
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