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Following the announcement, Professor Rune Toftgård told senior editor Simon Frantz how the story behind the discovery of telomeres and telomerase involved several chapters, and how the key discoveries came from unlikely sources. Credits: Ladda Productions AB (camera)
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009