Nobel Prize in Medicine shared by three U.S. genetic researchers
Monday, October 5, 2009 - 07:35
in Health & Medicine
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded this morning in Stockholm to Elizabeth Blackburn, a professor of biology and physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, Carol Greider, a professor in the department of molecular biology and genetics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, and Jack Szostak, a professor of genetics at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase, the Prize committee announced in a press briefing. [More]
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