Three awarded Nobel Prize in medicine

This year's Nobel prize in medicine was awarded with one half to John O’Keefe and the other half jointly to May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Mosel. The Nobel Prize Committee awarded them for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain. The three Nobel Laureates of 2014 have discovered a positioning system, an ‘inner GPS’ in the brain that makes it possible to orient ourselves in space, demonstrating a cellular basis for higher cognitive function, a Nobel Prize press release said today, according to a news agency.