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Chromosome protection scoops Nobel

Nature volume 461, pages 706–707 (2009)Cite this article

Prize for physiology or medicine awarded for uncovering role of telomeres.

Three US scientists have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the structure of molecular caps called telomeres and working out how they protect chromosomes from degradation. Their discoveries in cell biology during the 1980s and 1990s opened new avenues of work, in ageing and in cancer research, which are still highly active today.

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