Text on screen: Brandeis University celebrates Michael Rosbash and Jeffrey Hall on receiving the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. President Ron Liebowitz: We at Brandeis could not be ...

With characteristic envelope-pushing humor, Michael Rosbash, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, couldn’t help dropping a joke into a press conference Monday morning about the ...

The Scientist: How did you become interested in studying genes related to circadian rhythm? Michael Rosbash: The origin of the interest is a basic understanding of questions like, why your mother has ...

We began our studies of Drosophila circadian rhythms almost 30 years ago, as a collaboration between my lab and that of my friend and Brandeis colleague Jeff Hall. Our more short-term goal at that ...

Three Americans – Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young – have won the 2017 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their work on molecular mechanisms that control circadian systems.

Three Americans won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their discoveries about the body’s biological clock, opening up whole new fields of research and raising awareness about the ...

In October Michael Rosbash, PhD ’71, and Rainer Weiss ’55, PhD ’62, both got early-morning calls from Stockholm, making them the 35th and 36th MIT alumni to become Nobel laureates. Rosbash, a ...

Most animals on earth sleep during the night and are awake during the day, except for the other animals that do the opposite, like raccoons (and Elvis Presley). But why? How do animals set their ...

July 1, 2009, New York, NY – The 2009 Neuroscience Prize of The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation is being awarded to Jeffrey Hall, professor of neurogenetics at the University of Maine; Michael ...

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded today to three American scientists for their discoveries about how our internal clocks work. NPR health correspondent Rob Stein has the ...

Today, the Nobel committee kicked off its 2017 season by awarding the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to three scientists for their discoveries of the molecular mechanisms that control circadian ...

Michael Rosbash’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine — for discovering the genetic mechanisms of the circadian rhythm, the body’s biological clock — was the crowning achievement of a lifetime of ...