Australian - Scientist | November 26, 1948 -
Being senior enough in the field, having enough solidity, I don't feel afraid of being marginalized.
Elizabeth Blackburn
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This enzyme, called telomerase, slows the rate at which telomeres degrade, and research indicates that healthy people with longer telomeres have less risk of developing the common illnesses of aging - like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, which are three big killers today.
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Ageing is so many different things, and cells being able to self-renew is part of the picture but not all of it.
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No one ever said, 'Be a doctor.' But because so many members of my extended family - aunts, uncles - were doctors, there was this expectation that I'd probably be a physician.
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If we think of our chromosomes - they carry our genetic material - as being like shoelaces, I work on the plastic tips at the end that protect them.
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Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.
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I was using very unconventional methods to sequence the telemetric DNA, originally.
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I spent my first 4 years living in the tiny town of Snug, by the sea near Hobart. Curious about animals, I would pick up ants in our backyard and jellyfish on the beach.
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Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child.
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Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of time.
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In my early work, our molecular views of telomeres were first focused on the DNA.
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Studying organisms at a molecular level was totally compelling because it was moving from being a naturalist, which was the 19th-century kind of science, to being very focused and really getting to the heart of these molecules.
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