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Jack Szostak
Professor
Harvard Medical School and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Nobel Prize in Medicine 2009
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Recording date:
16 Dec 2009
  • Genes
  • Molecules inside us
  • Nobel Prize
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It's not going to let us live forever

Nobel Prize winner Jack Szostak solved the long-standing puzzle of how the ends of chromosomes are protected from degradation. His recent work involves trying to understand how life could emerge on Earth by designing primitive artificial cells.

Jack Szostak is also a member of Molecular Frontiers!

Interviewed by Per Thorén, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

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