{"id":3660,"date":"2009-10-05T11:10:03","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T18:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=3660"},"modified":"2009-10-05T11:10:03","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T18:10:03","slug":"ttaggg-nobel-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/10\/05\/ttaggg-nobel-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"TTAGGG Nobel Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2009 has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/medicine\/laureates\/2009\/press.html\">announced<\/a> and has been awarded to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak for &#8220;how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.&#8221;  I&#8217;m sure the medicalbioblogs here on Scienceblogs will have some fine coverage of this.  But one thing jumps out at me: Carol Greider was, I think, a graduate student when she worked did this work!  So, dear graduate student procrastinating by reading this blog, please get back to work and win that there Nobel Prize!<br \/>\nOh, and of course, in the Nobel counting game, I am happy to report &#8220;Go Bears!&#8221; Cal is where Greider got her Ph.D. (and where the work on telemorase was done.)<br \/>\nAlso, first Nobel prize to a Tasmanian (Blackburn)?<br \/>\nOh, and yes, I just checked GERN stocks spiked this morning \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2009 has been announced and has been awarded to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak for &#8220;how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.&#8221; I&#8217;m sure the medicalbioblogs here on Scienceblogs will have some fine coverage of this. But one thing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/10\/05\/ttaggg-nobel-prize\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TTAGGG Nobel Prize&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}