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Thu 03 Mar 2003Hear a Nobel laureate on the life of the cell
A Nobel laureate who helped unlock key secrets of the cell's lifecycle is giving a free public lecture at NUI Galway tomorrow week. Prof Sir Paul Nurse, right, will be talking about controlling the cell cycle and discussing the remarkable discoveries being made about how cells divide, propagate and, occasionally, become dangerous, in cancer.
Prof Nurse, chief executive of Cancer Research UK, identified, cloned and characterised one of the key regulators of the cell cycle. Known as cyclin dependent kinase, or CDK, it drives the cell through the cell cycle by chemically modifying other proteins.
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