Finding Quote by Elizabeth Blackburn

In 2004, results from a study that I worked on with colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, linked chronic stress to shortening…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

For me, arguably the story of telomeres and telomerase began thousands of years ago, in the cornfields of the Maya highlands of Central America.

— Elizabeth Blackburn

Exercise mitigates the effects of stress - and stress, we know, shortens telomeres. In fact, early studies indicate that stress reduction techniques like meditation…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

In humans, the thing is that as we mature, our telomeres slowly wear down. So the question has always been: 'Did that matter?' Well,…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

Basically, when you look at different types of cells, such as fibroblasts, which form connective tissue, or epithelial cells, from saliva, you see general…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

Cancer cells have had so many other things go wrong with them, genetic, non-genetic changes, that those cells, one of the things they then…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

Telomeres are the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes in cells. Chromosomes carry the genetic information. Telomeres are buffers. They are like the…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

Chronic emotional stress shortens your telomeres.

— Dean Ornish

Telomeres are the ends of our chromosomes that control how long we live. As telomeres become shorter, then cells age and die more quickly.…

— Dean Ornish

“People who exercise more and sleep better have longer telomeres.”

— Stefan Klein

I consider myself a perpetual student. You seek and learn every day: from an experiment in the lab, from reading a scientific journal, from…

— Anthony Fauci

If I'm flying to China, I can sit and think about a problem. Other scientists have to go to the lab. I'm always thinking…

— Marcus du Sautoy