Jack Szostak Wins 2009 Nobel Prize

Jack Szostak

HMS interview with Jack Szostak
Origins in the News (Past Years)

Jack W. Szostak Awarded 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet press release, October 5, 2009)

Jack Szostak wins Nobel for work on chromosome protection (Harvard Gazette, October 5, 2009)

Origins of Life on Earth, PDF (Scientific American, September 2009)

Two Steps Forward for Synthetic Biology, PDF (Science, August 21, 2009)

Biology's Odd Couple (Newsweek, July 13, 2009)

New Glimpses of Life's Puzzling Origins (New York Times, June 16, 2009)

George Church wins the 2009 Promega Biotechnology Research Award (May 22, 2009)

Whitesides receives inaugural Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences (May 14, 2009)

Kepler starts search for other Earths (May 14, 2009)

Harvard fuels quest to create life from scratch (Boston Globe, March 8, 2009)

Cynthia Friend receives Olah Award (March 5, 2009)

Charbonneau to receive 2009 Alan T. Waterman Award (NSF, February 27, 2009)

Transit search finds super-Neptune (January 20, 2009)

Biologists on verge of creating new life form (Wired Science, September 7, 2008)

A new era in search for ‘sister Earths’? (July 25, 2008)

Laser precision added to search for new Earths (April 2, 2008)

J. Craig Venter named visiting scholar (February 29, 2008)

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