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- ForumDriv, on 10/05/2009, -10/+20Two out of three are immigrants to the United States, which must make the opponents of immigration in the GOP a little angry. If they were not opposed to immigration reform and legal immigration, perhaps more talented people could come here legally.
- matu4251, on 10/05/2009, -0/+9Yes, the nobels were waiting especially for you... The work for which they are receiving the Nobel prize was conducted during the late 70s/early 80s.
- kavendano14, on 10/05/2009, -1/+8The couldn't care less if they are legal or not, my uncle got arrested in his job accused of being illegally here, he's a citizen
- inactive, on 10/05/2009, -0/+7In keeping with a long-established tradition, the winners will wait at least a few decades before admitting they came up with their fundamental hypothesis while tripping on LSD.
- kinerry, on 10/05/2009, -6/+13legal immigrants
not illegal aliens
the GOP could care less about immigrants, they hate illegals - farfromsubtl, on 10/05/2009, -0/+6Cheers to the poster for including the implications for aging research in the title, even though this article, like so many, seems to have missed that point and focused solely on the cancer advancement.
- Zaxcomp, on 10/05/2009, -0/+5I don't think you pay much attention to the belated-ness of Nobel prizes.
- prodromus, on 10/05/2009, -0/+5It's not cancer research. That's what the article focuses on because that is what gets airtime in the US media, but the discovery has applications beyond cancer. It seems to be important in aging and solved a fundamental problem in cell biology. Namely: how does the cell keep from losing chromosomal information every time it divides?
Furthermore, the idea that there will ever by "a cure for cancer" is fairly ludicrous. Different types of cancer have very different genetic causes and these causes vary even within a "type" of cancer. So at best scientists will provide a cadre of treatment options that doctors will use to tailor a regimen to patients. But no one will ever discover one cure for all cancers- they are the same disease only in the sense that bacterial infections are all the same disease. - cruelsniper, on 10/05/2009, -0/+4You try it if it's so easy...
- prodromus, on 10/05/2009, -0/+4It will be more than 3-5 years before telomeres can be manipulated practically and safely in humans. Genetic manipulation is serious business.
- atchon, on 10/05/2009, -0/+3So you want to take awards away from people who already have pretty ***** wages doing something which could eventually benefit millions of people?
I can't even begin to tell you how stupid you are. - digitalArtform, on 10/05/2009, -0/+3What makes you think curing cancer won't bring medals and huge piles of cash?
- k3rfuffl3, on 10/05/2009, -0/+2I think it says more about how ***** American education/culture is when it comes to breeding scientists with actual creativity and intelligence - not just hard work .
- cruelsniper, on 10/06/2009, -0/+2Wow! Thanks for not being an ***** like some above people. Thank you for the information; I do not follow the Nobel prizes all that much, so I did not know that they give prizes to people so late after an act.
- BarneyF, on 10/05/2009, -0/+2If Obama invites them to the WH th republicans will start hating them for sure, and claim Brazil should have won the Nobel Prize or something.
After all, American already has more than its fair share, right? - atchon, on 10/05/2009, -0/+2Nobel Prizes are often awarded a considerable time after the initial discover. It gives time for evidence to show that the discovery was legitimate and a large contribution to science.
- evgeniy13, on 10/05/2009, -0/+2Russian scienist Alexey Olovnikov discovered telomeres first! That is unfair.
- digitalArtform, on 10/05/2009, -4/+5Then why do they keep hiring them?
- Kate1240, on 10/05/2009, -5/+6ForumDriv - Wrong!
I think they are concerned with legal immigration. Because.. millions of illegal aliens have taken up residence in US (California) that have bankrupted schools, medical facilities, prisons, and social aid networks.
That's what the MSM fails to report. - nullcodes, on 10/05/2009, -0/+1How come Olovnikov or Joseph Gall didn't share it too? You know what the restriction of 3 winners for the Nobel prize is getting more and more screwed up.
It's going to end up ***** up collaborative work, and ***** up science. - nostradumass, on 10/05/2009, -0/+1Elizabeth Blackburn , as a member of the Bioethics committee set up by Pres. Bush, was fired by the Bush administration in 2004 for her views on stem cell research,and replaced by ultra conservative Bush toadies who dared not disagree with the Bush admin's view that stem cell research was "evil".This must be sweet revenge for her.
Take that, you science hating ultra conservative Repub troglodytes... - CosmosCR, on 10/05/2009, -0/+1http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/hmn/W07/feature1.cf ...
^ better example of the type of person the GOP hates. - docibor, on 10/05/2009, -1/+2manipulating telomeres will bring to great solutions for many diseases. Practically it may take more 3-5 years.
- inactive, on 10/05/2009, -1/+1They came here legally and didn't expect free healthcare or public education either they worked for what they got.
- digitalArtform, on 10/05/2009, -3/+2The MSM needs to turn up the heat on our Illegal Employer problem.
- cruelsniper, on 10/05/2009, -6/+1I've known about telomeres for like over 4 years not it seems, and they're just now getting a Nobel prize for this?...
- kinerry, on 10/05/2009, -14/+5of course football trumps this on all the american news websites
how sickening - animenick65, on 10/05/2009, -14/+3I'm sorry, but people need to stop getting awards and medals for research on cancer. Its like getting an award for researching how to get to the finish line instead of actually doing it. Umm, how about medals for actually curing cancer, at least in some form?
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