Jack Szostak studies the chemical and physical processes that gave rise to biological evolution on the early Earth. His laboratory is trying to build a synthetic protocell that undergoes Darwinian evolution, potentially leading to the spontaneous emergence of genomically encoded catalysts and structural molecules.
Szostak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.
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