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Monday, October 5, 2009

Nobel Prize 2009

3 Americans(Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W Greider, Jack W Szostak) won the 2009 nobel prize in medicine for discovering a key mechanism in the genetic operation of cells ,an insight that has inspired new lines of research into cancer.
The trio solved the mystery of chromosomes, the rod like structure that carry DNA, protect themselves from degrading when cell divides.

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