American scientists Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Shostack have this year won Nobel Prize for discovering the mechanism for protecting chromosomes by telomeres and telomeraza enzymes.

This year's Nobel laureates have managed solve the greatest problem in biology, i.e. they have established the changes in cell fission process and their protection from degradation.

Such scientific discovery is greatly significant for searching new ways of treating cancer and realizing aging process.

Total award sum to be shared by 3 laureates will be an equivalent to USD 1.42 million.