Damage is done Quote by Elizabeth Blackburn

We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a variety of diseases that are becoming very common,…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

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

The conservative statement is that telomere length is a biomarker, but it's probably not passive. There are some very intimate relationships between things such…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

If a test showed you had telomere shortening, it would be a red flag suggesting you should take a look at possible risk factors.

— 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

The goal is to learn more about telomere length and other markers of ageing, how best to measure these markers, how they are related…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

The COVID-19 pandemic made clear that telehealth care will only continue to grow as a vital part of our healthcare system.

— Young Kim

We're collecting about 100,000 telomere lengths in saliva samples and then looking at how those relate to both the extensive longitudinal clinical records that…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal…

— Ralph Merkle

It is unlikely that changes in telomeres are influencing the lifespan of the worm. That is because telomeres only shorten when cells divide. Most…

— Cynthia Kenyon

Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet todays surgical tools are too large to deal…

— Ralph Merkle

So what we're all hoping to do, us researchers, is to develop ways to not really just extend lifespan but to keep people healthier…

— David Andrew Sinclair