STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Three Americans won the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday for revealing the existence and nature of telomerase, an enzyme that helps prevent the fraying of chromosomes that ...

Three American scientists were awarded a Nobel Prize on Monday for discovering how cells protect their genetic material as they divide repeatedly during an organism's life. The long, thread-like DNA ...

UCLA biochemists have determined the three-dimensional structure of a major domain of telomerase, the enzyme that helps maintain telomeres – small pieces of DNA on the ends of chromosomes that act as ...

(PHILADELPHIA)—Researchers at The Wistar Institute have deciphered the structure of the active region of telomerase, an enzyme that plays a major role in the development of nearly all human cancers.

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University have found molecular evidence of how a biochemical process controls the lengths of protective chromosome tips, a potentially significant step in ultimately ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Three Americans won the Nobel prize for medicine Monday for revealing the existence and nature of telomerase, an enzyme that helps prevent the fraying of chromosomes that ...