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The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak for their contributions to our understanding of how the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes, telomeres, are replicated by a specialized reverse transcriptase, telomerase. I present a personal view of the telomere field, putting the contributions of these three Nobel laureates into historical context.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 20005795 PMCID: PMC2963196 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2009.11.033
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell ISSN: 0092-8674 Impact factor: 41.582