The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative, based at Cornell University in New York, announced the young Ukrainian researcher will receive a Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum Early Career Award.
The son of a cantor,Michael Rosbash of Brandeis University, an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, was one of three American scientists to win the 2017 Nobel Prize for Medicine.
Israeli-American chemists Arieh Warshel and Michael Levitt were officially awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, on Tuesday.
The first-ever definitive study into the origins of North African Jews has revealed their hitherto-unknown relationship to the rest of the Jewish Diaspora.
Conjuring fear of Nazism and anti-Semitism, Jews recoil from the thought that Judaism might be a race, but medical geneticist Harry Ostrer insists the 'biological basis of Jewishness' cannot be ignored.