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by Shoreleave 2186 days ago
> Carol Greider’s 2009 Nobel Prize was based on work inspired by informal phone calls and emails from Bret

Bret is quick to point out that Dr. Greider's Nobel prize is well deserved and for related, but earlier work. The contention is over later work.

Their conversation did inspire these findings about lab mice telomeres. But Dr. Greider's lab decided to keep the information "in house". This means that instead of publishing the source of the information, they can use their knowledge to start predicting other results, and publish a full stream of paper first. This is at 1:23:50.