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    Jack William Szostak FRS (born November 9, 1952) is a Canadian American biologist of Polish British descent, Nobel Prize laureate, University Professor...
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    Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak, becoming the first Australian woman Nobel laureate. She also worked...
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    DNA sequences composing chromosome ends. Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak were awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery...
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    DNA polymerase and the lab of Jack Szostak, selecting RNA ligands against various organic dyes. Two years later, the Szostak lab and Gilead Sciences, acting...
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  • Edward Szostak (1911–1990), Polish basketball player Jack W. Szostak (born 1952), Canadian-American biologist of Polish-British descent Michał Szostak (born...
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    2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Blackburn and Jack W. Szostak, for their discovery that telomeres are protected from progressive...
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    ordered life processes from chaotic non-living matter. Irene Chen and Jack W. Szostak suggest that elementary protocells can give rise to cellular behaviors...
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    century. However, experiments by Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak in the 1980s led to the successful discovery of telomerase (the enzyme...
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    efficiency of a self-replicating catalytic RNA and was supervised by Jack W. Szostak. After her PhD, she held research fellowships in molecular biology...
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  • from Harvard University in 1993, under the mentorship of Jack W. Szostak. While in the Szostak lab, Bartel isolated the first ribozymes directly from random...
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    laureate (for work on telomeres and telomerase with Carol Greider and Jack Szostak). Sydney Brenner (deceased), Nobel laureate (for work with Caenorhabditis...
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    who later became Director of the National Institutes of Health, and Jack Szostak, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2009. The...
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    of material between chromosomes through Holliday junctions. In 1983, Jack Szostak and colleagues presented a model now known as the DSBR pathway, which...
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    Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard Notable scientists at MGH include Jack Szostak, PhD, 2009 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Rakesh...
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    protecting them and maintaining the integrity of the genome Carol Greider Jack Szostak Clinical Aaron Beck The development of cognitive therapy, which has transformed...
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    virus 1970s. Telomerase – Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak discover enzyme that promotes cell division and growth 1985. Vitamin...
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  • cells. She is a co-founder of synthetic cell company Synlife. Adamala and Szostak demonstrated non enzymatic RNA replication in primitive protocells is only...
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  • Ruvkun 2007 Ralph M. Steinman 2006 Elizabeth Blackburn Carol W. Greider Jack Szostak 2005 Ernest McCulloch James Till 2004 Pierre Chambon Ronald M. Evans...
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  • Sarofim Businessperson Egypt Nadja Salerno Sonnenberg Violinist Italy Jack Szostak Biochemist United Kingdom Tracey Ullman Comedian United Kingdom Alexander...
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    Is Earth Exceptional? (forthcoming 2024), written with Nobel laureate Jack Szostak, describes cutting-edge research on the origin of life on Earth and the...
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    thinkers, including W. Brian Arthur, Svante Pääbo, Helga Nowotny and Jack Szostak, spoke during the lecture series. In 2018, the lectures were adapted...
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  • Oliver Smithies Brian Schmidt Jack Steinberger Hamilton O. Smith Thomas Steitz George Smoot Horst Störmer Jack Szostak Thomas Südhof Roger Y. Tsien John...
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  • Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for their work in cell-ageing and telomeres it was pointed out in Russian...
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  • human geneticist, discovered ways to extract DNA from fossilized bones Jack Szostak (born 1952), Anglo-US geneticist, worked on recombination, artificial...
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    been heralded by his collaborator and Nobel-prize winning geneticist Jack Szostak as an important advance in understanding the origins of life. He is a...
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  • interactions. In 2006, Iwasa began working as a postdoctoral fellow under Jack Szostak with Harvard University and the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 2007...
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    mechanisms for recombination such as the double-strand break model (by Jack Szostak, Frank Stahl, and others) and the single-strand annealing model. A third...
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  • Medicine, 2007 George Smoot, Physics, 2006 Thomas Steitz, Chemistry, 2009 Jack Szostak, Medicine, 2009 Charles Townes, Physics, 1964 Roger Tsien, Chemistry...
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  • the term “aptamer” was coined by Andrew Ellington, who worked with Jack Szostak to select an RNA aptamer that was capable of tight binding to certain...
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  • Harvard College, with Hoopes and Henderson Prizes for his work with Jack Szostak and Jennifer Doudna concerning the mechanism of ribozyme catalysis. He...
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