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Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Loading Medicine Nobel Prize
Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Medicine · 2009
Elizabeth H. Blackburn received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase. This work opened new questions and influenced later research and practice. This achievement represents one of the major advances recognized in medicine at the time.