Telomeres and telomerase as novel drug targets: reflections on the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

摘要

In December 2009, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine will be awarded in Stockholm to three (molecular) biologists: Elizabeth H. Blackburn, her former graduate student Carol W. Greider, and Jack W. Szostak. Their discovery of "how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase