Latest Life Sciences Breakthrough Prize Stories

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Russian Entrepreneur Yuri Milner and a gang of his “old friends,” including Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Google's Sergey Brin, have now joined together to reward breakthroughs in medical science with cold, hard cash, and loads of it. Called the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, those scientists who are deemed worthy of the prize will be awarded $3 million, twice the amount awarded with the Nobel Prize. This is the second...