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• Nobel Prize Awarded to two women and one man for research on Telomeres and Telomerase
“This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to three scientists who have solved a major problem in biology: how the chromosomes can be copied in a complete way during cell divisions and how they are protected against degradation. The Nobel Laureates have shown that the solution is to be found in the ends of the chromosomes — the telomeres — and in an enzyme that forms them: telomerase.”
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The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is also of interest. It relates to the full mapping of Gladys’ protein-making factories within the cells.
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