DNA ends: Just the beginning (Nobel lecture)

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 49, Issue 41, 2010, Pages 7386-7404

  Szostak, Jack W ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DIVISIONS; NOBEL PRIZES; TELOMERASE; TELOMERES;

CELL PROLIFERATION;

CHROMOSOMES;

DNA; TELOMERASE;

ANIMAL; AWARDS AND PRIZES; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; HISTORY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; REVIEW; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; DNA; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NOBEL PRIZE; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EID: 77957600841     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201000635     Document Type: Review

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