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Science 22 September 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5794, p. 1717
DOI: 10.1126/science.313.5794.1717b
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This year's Lasker awards for medical science span generations as well as disciplines. University of Pennsylvania psychiatrist Aaron Beck won an award for developing cognitive therapy, and pioneering cell biologist Joseph Gall, inventor of the gene-finding technique called in situ hybridization, was honored for a career of achievement. Researchers Elizabeth Blackburn (University of California, San Francisco), Carol Greider (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine), and Jack Szostak (Harvard) shared an award for their discovery in the 1970s and 1980s of the enzyme that makes the ends of chromosomes, which has led to potential treatments for cancer and age-related ailments. "We had no idea this was going to have medical implications," says Greider, calling the award a testament to "curiosity-driven" science.




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