What year did Elizabeth Blackburn win the Nobel Prize?
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Elizabeth Blackburn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009 for her groundbreaking research on telomeres, the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes. Her discovery that telomeres shorten with each cell division, and that the enzyme telomerase can lengthen them, has profound implications for understanding aging, cancer, and other diseases.
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