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Born November 9, 1952 (age 74) • London • England
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2009)
Subjects Of Study DNA • RNA • Tetrahymena • recombination • telomerase • telomere • yeast artificial chromosome

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English-born American biochemist and geneticist Jack W. Szostak.
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