Ferid Murad, a pharmacologist who shared a Nobel Prize in 1998 for discovering that nitric oxide, an air pollutant, plays a key role in relaxing blood vessels, a startling finding that led to ...

An American pharmacologist, he delved into the effects of nitric oxide, ... and which earned him a share in a Nobel Prize in 1998, died on Monday at his home in Menlo Park, Calif.

1998: Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad, "for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system." ... 1915: No Nobel Prize awarded.

The Nobel prizes may be one of the most famous and prestigious awards in the world—but who was the man behind them? As I explain in my lectures about Alfred Nobel, the inventor and entrepreneur ...

Here's a look at past winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, ... Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad, "for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the ...

Researchers now present an entirely novel principle that challenges the Nobel Prize-winning hypothesis that the substance signals in ... That the simple molecule nitric oxide or nitrogen ...

[5,6] The relationship between NO and the cardiovascular system has proven to be a landmark discovery, and the scientists credited for its discovery were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1998.

SINGAPORE – Never overlook the small things, said Nobel Prize winner Louis Ignarro. It was this approach to science that led Professor Ignarro to discover how nitric oxide, a gaseous chemical in ...

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This year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three US pharmacologists for their discovery that the unstable gas, nitric oxide (NO), is an essential regulator of ...