Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology 2017

TNPSC Current Affairs - October 2017 by TNPSC Guru

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded jointly to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm or 24 hour body clock".

About the Discovery:

• Discovery explain how plants, animals and humans adapt their biological rhythm so that it is synchronized with the Earth's revolutions.”
• They are able to peek inside our biological clock and elucidate how life adopts to the 24-hour cycle of the day.
• They explain that every single cell of every organism has a clock inside which will adapt to the 24 hour cycle.
• For example biological clock inside regulates activities like sleeping, waking up, eating, regulating hormones, temperature and more throughout the day.
• Health will get affected when there is a mismatch between our external environment and internal biological clock, Example we will experience “Jet lag” when we travel from one time zone to another time zone. 

About Nobel Prize:

Nobel Prize is an Annual international award honouring men and women for outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and for work in peace.

It was awarded since 1901. Award was given annually as per the Alfred Nobel last will.