Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009

October 5, 20090 comments


Australian-American researcher Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider and Jack Szostak of the United States won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 for identifying a key switch in cellular ageing.
The trio were honoured for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the role of an enzyme called telomerase in maintaining or stripping away this molecular shield.

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