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THE HIGHEST HONOUR: Elzabeth Blackburn (L), Carol Greider (C) and Elizabeth H Blackburn (R) were honoured on Monday.

THE HIGHEST HONOUR: Elzabeth Blackburn (L), Carol Greider (C) and Elizabeth H Blackburn (R) were honoured on Monday.

US trio wins medicine Nobel for ageing research

Three Americans won the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday for revealing the existence and nature of telomerase, an enzyme which helps prevent the fraying of chromosomes that underlies aging and cancer. Australian-born Elizabeth Blackburn, British-born Jack Szostak and Carol Greider won the prize of 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.42 million), Sweden's Karolinska Institute said.

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