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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…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

We think there are lifestyle factors that boost telomerase naturally.

— Elizabeth Blackburn

If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

When you bring telomerase RNA levels down by using a mechanism that targets the RNA for destruction, the cells which were running on very…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

Cancer cells have a lot of other things that are really wrong with them, and we should never forget that these are cells that…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

Cancer is a disease of the genome. And that's what happens. You make mistakes in a cell somewhere in your body that causes it…

— Francis Collins

Medicine has been successful by treating diseases in a very specific way once the damage is done. But telomere length integrates a lot of…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

Cancer can take a long time to develop and necessarily has multiple causes.

— Devra Davis

“Cancer, we now know, is a disease caused by the uncontrolled growth of a single cell. This growth is unleashed by mutations—changes in DNA…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs.

— Eric Topol

My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It's…

— Melissa Etheridge

Cancer cells are fixed at an age where they are still too young to have learned the rules of the society in which they…

— Sherwin B. Nuland