[neverdem]

ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S) CAROL W. GREIDER and ELIZABETH H. BLACKBURN began collaborating in 1983, when Greider joined Blackburn's laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. Greider, who earned her Ph.D. in molecular biology from Berkeley in 1987, is senior staff scientist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Blackburn holds a 1975 doctorate in molecular biology from the University of Cambridge. She has been a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of California, San Francisco, since 1990 and department chair since 1993.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

“We are posting the main text of this article from the February 1996 issue of Scientific American for all our readers because the authors have won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.”

I don’t see what the big deal is about.

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[libbylu]

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Ok, this magic product is supposed to work on the telomeres. Should I be worried or not?

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping....

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[Wacka]

I followed their work in the past and met Carol Greider a few times at conferences. Very elegant work and explained very clearly. Blackburn and Greider have described telomers as the aglets of the chromosome. An aglet is the plastic on the end of shoelaces that prevents them from unraveling. This prevents chromosomal fusions. Telomers are present on all organisms with linear chromosomes (all eukaryotes- cells with a nucleus) and even a few bacteria with linear chromosomes. Most bacteria have circular chromosomes (no ends).

[GOP Poet]

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