Three Americans Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak won the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering a key mechanism in the genetic operations of cells, an insight that has inspired new lines of research into cancer. Chemistry and especially Organic Chemistry helps to understand better what is going on at molecular level. Although Medicine is not chemistry, you are required to possess a good knowledge of chemistry before entering a school of medicine. Why? Understanding basic things such as a difference between an acid and a base can assist in not prescribing a medication that is carboxylic acid type to a patient suffering from ulcer. Another example I could give is that glycolysis cycle is better understood when formulas of molecules involved are used. This includes the knowledge of aldehydes, acyl group, carboxylic acid, alkyl groups etc…                       GLYCOLYSIS