Elizabeth H. Blackburn received the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine 2009 together with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase". Visit her lab and find out more about the fascinating mechanisms that make telomeres work in cell: mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/nobellabs/29723/laboratory-of-elizabeth-h-blackburn