Tuesday, October 04, 2005

helicobacter pylori

H.pylori image courtesy of www.hpylori.com.au


Some people do go out of their way to learn something.

Barry J. Marshall, working with J. Robin Warren, had to swallow a culture of Helicobacter pylori just to prove its role in the causation of peptic ulcer disease and gastritis.

I suppose in the end it was all worth it:
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005.

More about it here and here.


2 Comments:

At 8:36 PM, Blogger riddler said...

wow.. weird but cool.. nweiz, thanx po sa visit.. san niyo po nakita site ko???

 
At 9:38 PM, Blogger lefthand said...

riddler, i'm not so sure exactly where i found a link to your site. might have been lilintian's.

 

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