The 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Roger D. Kornberg from Stanford,

“for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription”.

I don’t remember seeing that pick made in any of the recent blog entries on the subject.

And at least one blogger out there is upset about how “the shoe-horning of biology into the chemistry prize continues”.

UPDATE***

Thanks to Bethany at Chemical & Engineering News for letting me know about this story she wrote a couple of years ago about the fuzzy boundaries of the Chemistry Nobel.

Discuss…

Stuart

Stuart Cantrill (Associate Editor, Nature Nanotechnology)

Adult blood cells seem to be easier to reprogramme than stem cells.

By cloning two mice from cells fated never to divide again, researchers in the United States have defied the notion that cloning mammals is easiest from stem cells, or other cells that are still dividing.

Read the story here.