Who was one of Elizabeth Blackburn's Nobel co-recipients?
Jack W. Szostak
James Watson
Francis Crick
Rosalind Franklin
Answer
Jack W. Szostak was one of Elizabeth Blackburn's Nobel co-recipients. Blackburn, Szostak, and Carol W. Greider were jointly awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase. This discovery has significant implications for understanding and treating cancer and aging-related diseases.
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