Three American researchers share Nobel prize in Medicine
Posted on 05. Oct, 2009 by Turbo in Buzz
Their discovery on how chromosomes are offered protection by telomeres and significance of telomerase enzyme in the stripping off the shield has actually yielded three American researchers this year’s prestigious Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Elizabeth Blackburn an American-Australian woman from the University of California, Carol W. Greider, the American-born scientist from John Hopkins University who works under the guidance of Blackburn and Jack W. Szostak the American researcher from the Harvard Medical School share the Medicine Nobel for their work in cell biology and chromosome biology.
