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Telomerase Discovery: The Excitement of Putting Together Pieces of the Puzzle (Nobel Lecture)
Author(s) -
Greider Carol W.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201002408
Subject(s) - telomere , telomerase , biology , eukaryotic chromosome fine structure , genetics , philosophy , dna , gene
Secrets revealed : The Nobel Prize for Medicine 2009 was awarded for the solution to one of the greatest mysteries of biology: how are chromosomes copied upon cell division and protected from degradation? The answer can be found at the ends of the chromosomes—the telomeres—and in the enzyme that forms them—telomerase. The laureates describe the events leading to the discovery first‐hand.