An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15967 entries, 13956 authors and 1940 subjects. Updated: June 2, 2024

GRIEDER, Carolyn Widney

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Identification of a specific telomere terminal transferase activity in Tetrahymena extracts.

Cell, 43 (2 Pt 1) 405-413, 1985.

Blackburn and Grieder discovered telomerase in the ciliate Tetrahymena. For the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase, Blackburn and Grieder, along with Jack W. Szostak, were awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Cell Biology, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, GERIATRICS / Gerontology / Aging, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999