Nobel Prize: Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine this year went to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider, and Jack W. Szostak, for their work on “how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase”.
Learn more with some key publications you can find at Collins Library:
- Szostak JW, Blackburn EH. Cloning yeast telomeres on linear plasmid vectors. Cell 1982; 29:245-255.
In print at Collins - Greider CW, Blackburn EH. Identification of a specific telomere terminal transferase activity in Tetrahymena extracts. Cell 1985; 43:405-13.
In print at Collins - Greider CW, Blackburn EH. A telomeric sequence in the RNA of Tetrahymena telomerase required for telomere repeat synthesis. Nature 1989; 337:331-7.
This issue in print at Collins; 1990 to the present online.
Or watch the prize announcement or a quick talk about the discovery honored.
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