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- October 10, 2009
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Telomerase and Wnt signaling
by Charles Daney in Science and Reason
Now that research into telomeres and telomerase has (finally) garnered a Nobel Prize, it's a good time to write about recent research on the subject.Seminal work on telomeres by Elizabeth Blackburn, one of the Nobel winners, was published way back in 1978, and active studies have been going on ever since. So perhaps it's not surprising that the rate of new findings is not so rapid as occurs in newer areas – such as stem cells.But fascinating new results on telomeres and telomerase do still........ Read more »
Park, J., Venteicher, A., Hong, J., Choi, J., Jun, S., Shkreli, M., Chang, W., Meng, Z., Cheung, P., Ji, H.... (2009) Telomerase modulates Wnt signalling by association with target gene chromatin. Nature, 460(7251), 66-72. DOI: 10.1038/nature08137
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