U.S. trio wins medicine Nobel for telomerase

Monday, October 5, 2009 - 20:28 in Health & Medicine

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Three Americans won the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday for revealing the existence and nature of telomerase, an enzyme that helps prevent the fraying of chromosomes that underlies aging and cancer.

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