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The author reflects on the award of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to three biologists in Stockholm, Sweden. The author states that the three biologists who will receive the award include Elizabeth H. Blackburn, her former graduate student Jack W. Szostak and Carol W. Greider. The author says that the discovery of three biologists of how chromosomes are prevented by the enzyme telomerase and telomeres solved a big problem in biology.