Who else along with carol greider were nobel prize winners?
This year’s Nobel prize for medicine goes to the three US researchers who discovered how the body protects the chromosomes housing vital genetic code. Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak jointly share the award. Their work revealed how the chromosomes can be copied and has helped further our understanding on human ageing, cancer and stem cells. The answer lies at the ends of the chromosomes – the telomeres – and in an enzyme that forms them – telomerase. The 46 chromosomes contain our genome written in the code of life – DNA. This year’s Nobel prize for medicine goes to the three US researchers who discovered how the body protects the chromosomes housing vital genetic code. Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak jointly share the award. Their work revealed how the chromosomes can be copied and has helped further our understanding on human ageing, cancer and stem cells. The answer lies at the ends of the chromosomes – the telomeres – and in an enzyme that fo
Hopkins professor among Nobel winners in medicine Greider part of trio honored for finding key mechanism in cells’ genetic operations By Karl Ritter and Matt Moore The Associated Press 7:33 a.m. EDT, October 5, 2009 STOCKHOLM – Carol W. Greider, a professor in the department of molecular biology and genetics at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, was among three Americans named winners Monday of the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering a key mechanism in the genetic operations of cells, an insight that has inspired new lines of research into cancer. The trio of Greider, Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Jack W. Szostak solved the mystery of how chromosomes, the rod-like structures that carry DNA, protect themselves from degrading when cells divide. The Nobel citation said the laureates found the solution in the ends of the chromosomes — structures called telomeres that are often compared to the plastic tips at the end of shoe laces that keep those laces from unra
