Monday, October 5, 2009

Aging Discovery Yields Nobel Prize

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 05, @09:47AM
from the i'm-still-getting-older-here dept.
An anonymous reader writesThis 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, called the telomeres, and in an enzyme that forms them."

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