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2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology: Telomeres

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Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak will share the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on telomeres and telomerase. Dr. Bruce Stillman, President of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and a former colleague of Carol Greider explains the importance of the research.

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  • Only one small mistake. In, most cancers, the telomerase activity is increased and telomeres are lengthen, not "unstable" like he said, this allows them to replicate multiple times without running out of telomere (TTAGGG) nucleotides, and thats one mechanism by which cancer cells don't obey normal cell functions. That is the main reason, why Hela cells have been cultured and growing for almost 60 years even after the person who they were obtained died years ago.

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