10-06-2009, 04:50 AM
Telomeres in the news again. Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak jointly share the Nobel Prize for medicine.
Nobel prize for chromosome find
"If the telomeres did repeatedly shorten, cells would rapidly age. Conversely, if the telomere length is maintained, the cell would have eternal life, which could also be problematic. This happens in the case of cancer cells."
Nobel prize for chromosome find
"If the telomeres did repeatedly shorten, cells would rapidly age. Conversely, if the telomere length is maintained, the cell would have eternal life, which could also be problematic. This happens in the case of cancer cells."