Trio of Americans win Nobel Medicine

Published: 6 October 2009 y., Tuesday

This year's announcement from Stockholm, Sweden -- awarded the Nobel prize for medicine to a trio of Americans for discovering telomerase -- an enzyme which helps prevent the fraying of chromosomes that underlies aging and cancer.

Americans Elizabeth Blackburn, Jack Szostak and Carol Greider will share the 1.4 million dollar prize.

Šaltinis: Reuters
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