I mentioned this on Twitter yesterday, but I thought I would also blog about this WSJ story since they have a nice graphic showing how telomeres work. One of the three winners of the Nobel prize, Elizabeth Blackburn, is local to me and I have met with her to discuss her work. She is not only smart, but a nice person as well. It might surprise some people that she got kicked off of the President’s Council for Bioethics, presumably (according to this article) because she disagreed with the Bush administration on the embryonic stem cell issue.
U.S. Cell-Aging Researchers Awarded Nobel