US trio win Nobel Medicine Prize

US trio Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol W Greider and Jack W Szostak won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for discovering an enzyme which helps chromosomes in cells stay eternally young, the Nobel jury said.

US trio Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol W Greider and Jack W Szostak won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for discovering an enzyme which helps chromosomes in cells stay eternally young, the Nobel jury said.

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They were honoured for the discovery of "how chromosomes are protected by telemores and the enzyme telomerase," the jury said.