So far, tribute has been paid to Nobel prize winners, Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider, who
discovered telomerase; Barbara McClintock, who won a Nobel Prize for her discovery of mobile genetic elements and Nancy Wexler, who was involved in the work to identify the gene for Huntington's disease.
Greider, Blackburn and Szostak
discovered telomerase, the enzyme that copies the ends of chromosomes using a special RNA template.
The findings come on the heels of a March study in the New England Journal of Medicine, which similarly
discovered telomerase mutations in fibrosis patients.
She also
discovered telomerase, an enzyme that repairs and maintains telomere ends.
In the mid-1980s, Blackburn and her graduate student, Carol Greider,
discovered telomerase, an enzyme she has likened to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Blackburn and Greider
discovered telomerase.
By 1985, Blackburn, who had started her own lab at UC Berkeley, and Carol Greider, a grad student in Blackburn's group, had
discovered telomerase, an enzyme that synthesizes and preserves telomeric DNA.
Not exact matches
Working in Berkeley, Lundblad
discovered that even without
telomerase, yeast cells can sustain their chromosome tips — the first example of an alternative telomere - lengthening pathway.
However, the researchers believe that these results are proof of concept that gene therapy is a valid strategy against aplastic anemia; this therapy could also be applied to other genes — besides from
telomerase — if a causal role for those other forms of the disease was
discovered.
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discovered that there was a relationship between
telomerase and stress.
In an ironic twist, the current president is a woman: Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn, who
discovered the molecular nature of telomeres and who co-
discovered telomerase, was hired in November 2015 and began work in January 2016.
Her lab also
discovered a hidden regulatory landscape on the surfaces of cellular proteins, which act as traffic cops for
telomerase.
Dr. Blackburn won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009 for
discovering the molecular nature of telomeres and for co-
discovering the enzyme
telomerase; both telomeres and
telomerase are thought to play central roles in aging and diseases such as cancer.
Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn received the Nobel Prize in medicine in 2009 for
discovering how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme
telomerase, which repairs and rebuilds them.