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Quick Hit: Two Women Win Nobel Prize

posted by Feministing
Monday, October 5, 2009 at 7:04pm CDT

Americans Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider (along with Jack W. Szostak) won the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine today for discovering a key mechanism in the genetic operations of cells, an insight that has inspired new lines of research into cancer.

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