Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover Win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

While researching at the Technion in Haifa, Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The prize is given to them for discovering ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation, in which a molecule attaches to proteins that are damaged or need to be replaced, and signals the cell to destroy the protein.