Congratulations go out to this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, Jack Szostak, Carol Greider and Elizabeth Blackburn for their pioneering work on telomeres. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press is proud to be the publisher of Telomeres, a recent book on the subject co-edited by Blackburn.
Blackburn was interviewed by Joe Gall as part of the Genetics Society of America’s “Conversations in Genetics” oral history project. Some clips from the video conversation are available online:
Sequencing the first telomeres
Going to Cambridge
The whole conversation is available on DVD individually, or as part of a larger volume that includes Sydney Brenner, Charles Yanofsky, Victor McKusick, and Ray Owen.
October 5, 2009 at 8:55 pm
I hope that this finding leads to further research. It would be nice to see some advancements on disease, aging (especially the brain) and most of all cancer. It is about time.