#  Jack W. Szostak Awarded 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 

 





October 05, 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.

Read the full [Nobel Prize](http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2009/press.html) press release.



 

 

 

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