November 2009

“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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