Telomere Copy Protection: Nobel Goes To Scientists Who Solved How Chromosome Ends Work

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.

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