102 NOBEL PRIZE - BIOLOGY

♤ John O’Keefe (UK), May-Britt and Edvard Moser (Norway) have been jointly awarded Nobel prize for biology.

♤ They discovered that human brain has its own internal positioning system like GPS and thus we remember things and their locations in a room.

♤ Nerve cells responsible for this are located in a brain region termed as Hippocampus and these cells form a map of the outside world.

♤ This discovery doesn’t have any direct impact on new medicines however it can help in causes behind loss of spatial awareness in stokes patients or other dementia patients like Alzheimer.

♤ Alzheimer is currently untreatable and if we know the causes of this dementia; in future treatments can be developed.