Elizabeth Blackburn and Jack Szostak discovered that a unique DNA sequence in the telomeres protects the chromosomes from degradation.

伊丽莎白·布莱克本和杰克·卓斯塔克发现，由于端粒上有独特的DNA序列，从而能防止染色体的退化。

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Elizabeth H. Blackburn has US and Australian citizenship. She was born in 1948 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

伊丽莎白·海伦·布莱克本，1948年出生于澳大利亚塔斯马尼亚州的首府霍巴特，美国和澳大利亚双重国籍。

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Elizabeth Blackburn and Jack Szostak discovered the exact order of genetic information that protects chromosomes from ruin.

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Among those expected to accept their prizes are Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak.

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Elizabeth Blackburn compares them to the plastic tips on the ends of shoelaces.

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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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