Inside STAT: What's in the cards for this year's Nobel Prizes? Scientists are placing their bets

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This year’s Nobel Prizes are being announced next week, and STAT asked scientists to peer into the crystal ball to give us their best predictions for which names — and what research — are likely to be lauded. What’s unlikely? Anything in the field of immuno-oncology, since the field won in a big way last year. And even though most such predictions are rarely true, David Pendlebury of Clarivate Analytics has had some success, with 50 correct predictions (although often not in the right year) since 2002. His read for the chemistry Nobel this year is the three inventors of DNA sequencing techniques in the 1980s, without which “there would be no map of the human genome," Pendlebury tells STAT’s Sharon Begley. Read more here.