Elizabeth Blackburn wins "The Lasker Award"

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Elizabeth Blackburn, a scientist from Tasmania, Australia, has found a protein that determines the life span of cells. It is nothing less than crucial to aging, stress, cancer, and many other diseases. And it could likely win her the Nobel Prize.

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