University of California, San Francisco
News Conference This Morning: UCSF Scientist Wins Nobel Prize
Published in Lab Business Week, October 25th, 2009
Blackburn shares the award with Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Jack W. Szostak of Harvard Medical School.
The scientists were named to receive the prize "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the telomerase enzyme," according to the Nobel committee in Stockholm, Sweden.
Telomerase is pronounced (tel-AH-mer-AZE). Telomere is pronounced (TEEL-oh-mere). CELEBRATION & NEWS CONFERENCE WITH...
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Source: Lab Business Week (2009-10-25)
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