Conditions & Recovery · STAT News · October 2, 2026

What it’s like to wait for the call from the Nobel Prize committee

Ahead of this year's Nobel Prize announcements, STAT chatted with Mary-Claire King, who discovered the BRCA cancer mutations and is frequently mentioned in prize predictions.

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