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...Thomas R. Cech received an honorary doctor of science degree. A 1989 Nobel laureate in chemistry, Cech is currently the director of the Colorado Institute for Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Colorado. Cech's research served a pivotal role in the discovery that RNA can act as an enzyme??€”a function that had previously been viewed as exclusive to proteins. In 1987, Cech was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and was awarded a lifetime professorship by the American Cancer Society...
...toxin is an enzyme, a type of protein that accelerates the rate of chemical reactions by bringing reactants together in the enzyme??€™s active site...
...1970s and 1980s, Szostak studied how cells prevent the loss of crucial genetic information during cell division. He and Elizabeth H. Blackburn, a cell biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, predicted the presence of the enzyme??€”now known as telomerase—which allows cells to protect their genome from degradation...
Inspired by previous studies that revealed the enzyme??€™s high activity in abdominal fat, endocrinologist Dr. Jeffrey S. Flier, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and faculty dean for academic affiliation at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, decided to engage in further research...
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