I decided I wanted to go to Cambridge, and then I got introduced to Fred Sanger. I was very conscientious, and I… — Elizabeth Blackburn Go Copy Share Image
Cancer cells have a lot of other things that are really wrong with them, and we should never forget that these are… — Elizabeth Blackburn Body Copy Share Image
As maize became important for human food worldwide, modern agricultural research on maize breeding continued the corn breeding begun thousands of years… — Elizabeth Blackburn American Copy Share Image
The conservative statement is that telomere length is a biomarker, but it's probably not passive. There are some very intimate relationships between… — Elizabeth Blackburn Conservative Copy Share Image
Basically, when you look at different types of cells, such as fibroblasts, which form connective tissue, or epithelial cells, from saliva, you… — Elizabeth Blackburn Different types Copy Share Image
I spent my first 4 years living in the tiny town of Snug, by the sea near Hobart. Curious about animals, I… — Elizabeth Blackburn Animals Copy Share Image
When you bring telomerase RNA levels down by using a mechanism that targets the RNA for destruction, the cells which were running… — Elizabeth Blackburn Cells Copy Share Image
I was born in the small city of Hobart in Tasmania, Australia, in 1948. My parents were family physicians. My grandfather and… — Elizabeth Blackburn Born Copy Share Image
In humans, the thing is that as we mature, our telomeres slowly wear down. So the question has always been: 'Did that… — Elizabeth Blackburn Always Copy Share Image
We think there are lifestyle factors that boost telomerase naturally. — Elizabeth Blackburn Boost Copy Share Image
The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this ability to produce themselves… — Elizabeth Blackburn Ability Copy Share Image
“Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the… — Elizabeth Blackburn Every Minute Copy Share Image
I've only actively promoted what we always hope is good science. — Elizabeth Blackburn Always Copy Share Image
The goal is to learn more about telomere length and other markers of ageing, how best to measure these markers, how they… — Elizabeth Blackburn Best Copy Share Image
Medicine has been successful by treating diseases in a very specific way once the damage is done. But telomere length integrates a… — Elizabeth Blackburn Damage is done Copy Share Image
We're collecting about 100,000 telomere lengths in saliva samples and then looking at how those relate to both the extensive longitudinal clinical… — Elizabeth Blackburn About Copy Share Image
Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of… — Elizabeth Blackburn Beginnings Copy Share Image
Studying organisms at a molecular level was totally compelling because it was moving from being a naturalist, which was the 19th-century kind… — Elizabeth Blackburn Being Copy Share Image
Exercise mitigates the effects of stress - and stress, we know, shortens telomeres. In fact, early studies indicate that stress reduction techniques… — Elizabeth Blackburn Early Copy Share Image
For me, arguably the story of telomeres and telomerase began thousands of years ago, in the cornfields of the Maya highlands of… — Elizabeth Blackburn America Copy Share Image
When scientists get old, they get interested in the brain, and I'm a little bit afraid I'm falling into that. — Elizabeth Blackburn Afraid Copy Share Image
At Cambridge, there was a completely unintimidating culture, and there were no class divisions among the students. — Elizabeth Blackburn Cambridge Copy Share Image
In 2004, results from a study that I worked on with colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, linked chronic stress… — Elizabeth Blackburn California Copy Share Image
In my lab, we're finding that psychological stress actually ages cells, which can be seen when you measure the wearing down of… — Elizabeth Blackburn Finding Copy Share Image
