Three Americans Share Nobel Prize for Medicine (for the discovery of telomerase)

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More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telomerase

As the future brings as things like tissue engineering and organs on demand and new cancer therapies, telomeres and telomerase will be at the center of it all.

I'm not sure if I am remembering this correctly, but I think telomerase is not stable in blood and thus it can not be added to it and get to and enter inside cells?

interestingly 2 out of 3 were born outside of USA: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2009/

Actually I find the nationalities of the winners to be the least interesting part of Nobel Prize season. Apart from opportunities for nationalist chest-thumping, brow-beating and/or hand-wringing, who cares?

On the other hand, I bet if you were to go to the newspapers of the home countries of the two researchers not born in the US you wouldn't find the headline "Three Americans win Nobel Prize". Hmm, let me check...

Yup! The Age (Melbourne) currently has the headline "Our Beautiful Mind: Scientist Australia's first woman Nobel laureate". (Can't find an equivalent in the UK just now -- there are enough British Nobel laureates that they don't need to get excited over each one.)

yes, I was not trying to stress their nationality (one has dual anyway).

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