Winners in Medicine

Oct 05, 2009

Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak won the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine for their work on telomeres, reports the Associated Press. In the 1970s, Blackburn identified repeating segments at the ends of DNA in Tetrahymena while Szostak found that single-stranded DNA was rapidly degraded in yeast.

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