Elizabeth Blackburn de los Estados Unidos y a la Dra.

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And it was the enthusiasm of her mentor, Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, that drew Dr. Carol Greider to the groundbreaking work in genetics that would win both of them the Nobel Prize for Medicine.

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Greider, 48, along with her mentor Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn from the University of California, San Francisco, and Harvard scientist Dr. Jack Szostak, were given the Nobel Prize for their work with telomeres, which are the bits of repeating DNA at the end of our chromosomes.

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Dr Elizabeth Skelly, who treated Miss McCagh on her arrival at the hospital, also treated Mr Blackburn for minor burns to the back of his legs.

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