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What special honor did Aaron Ciechanover receive for his work in Chemistry?

  • A MacArthur fellowship

  • The Medal of Freedom

  • The Nobel Prize

  • An honorary degree from Oxford

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Aaron Ciechanover was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004 for his work on the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. Ciechanover's research showed that ubiquitin is a protein that tags other proteins for destruction by the proteasome, a large protein complex that breaks down proteins into their component amino acids.
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