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11/05/2009 - News
Medicine Nobel Prize Awarded for Research on Aging
By: June Chen, MD
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Three scientists based in the United States won the Nobel prize for medicine in recognition of their discovery of telomerase, an enzyme that is linked to human cancer, aging, and age-related conditions.
Elizabeth Blackburn of the University of California, San Francisco, Jack Szostak of Massachusetts General Hospital, and Carol Greider of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will share the Nobel prize of 10 million Swedish crowns (or, approximately $1.42 million) for their discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase. Their research addressed how chromosomes could be copied during cell divisions and how they are protected against degradation. According to the Nobel Foundation, the trio’s discoveries ‘added a new dimension to our understanding of the cell, shed light on disease mechanisms, and stimulated the development of potential new therapies.’ Telomeres and telomerase are currently targets for cancer and aging research.
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