The statue of Alfred Nobel at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Photo AFPFrom Reuters:
STOCKHOLM, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Three Americans were awarded the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday for the discovery of a built-in protection device in chromosomes, a finding that sheds light on ageing and may help in the fight against cancer.
Australian-born Elizabeth Blackburn, British-born Jack Szostak and Carol Greider won the prize of 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.42 million), Sweden's Karolinska Institute said.
The institute said the three had "solved a major problem in biology", namely how chromosomes were copied completely during cell division and protected against degradation.
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