Leland H Hartwell received a share of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for identifying regulators of the eukaryotic cell cycle. His yeast genetics experiments uncovered checkpoints that help prevent division when cells are damaged.
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Leland H Hartwell
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