News Source: The Boston Globe
| 2 months ago
Szostak, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and an investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, will split the $1.4 million prize equally with Elizabeth H. Blackburn of the University of California at San Francisco and Carol W.
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| 2 months ago
Elizabeth Blackburn has won the Nobel Prize for medicine, setting a landmark for the nation's scientists. The Tasmanian-born molecular biologist's Nobel is the first for an Australian woman. Independent...Dr Blackburn. Professor Blackburn, 60, who...
News Source: Epoch Times
| 2 months ago
Australia's first female Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn has been hailed as an inspiration to women, not just for her groundbreaking research into possible "fountain of youth". Professor Blackburn, 60, has become the first Australian woman to win...
News Source: Hindustan times
| 2 months ago
Australia on Tuesday hailed its first female Nobel laureate as an inspiration after she landed the medicine prize for discovering an enzyme described as a potential "fountain of youth". Elizabeth Blackburn, from Tasmania, was celebrating after being...
News Source: The New York Times
| 2 months ago
The recipients solved a longstanding puzzle involving the ends of chromosomes, the giant molecules of DNA that embody the genetic information. These ends, called telomeres , get shorter each time a cell divides and so serve as a kind of clock that...
News Source: The Age
| 2 months ago
Her work with two colleagues in the US found a key to staving off the ravages of ageing that has been praised as holding the promise of human bodies that don't grow frail with time or let cancer grow. Premier David Bartlett on Tuesday congratulated...