Cells Quote by Elizabeth Blackburn

If we think of our chromosomes - they carry our genetic material - as being like shoelaces, I work on the plastic tips at…

— 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

In my early work, our molecular views of telomeres were first focused on the DNA.

— Elizabeth Blackburn

We think there are lifestyle factors that boost telomerase naturally.

— Elizabeth Blackburn

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

“The tightness of genetic linkage, in short, was a surrogate for the physical proximity of genes on chromosomes: by measuring how often two features-blond-hairedness…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

“The helix contains two intertwined strands of DNA. It is "right-handed"-twisting upward as if driven by a right-handed screw. Across the molecule, it measures…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But…

— Richard Dawkins

We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of ancestral cells…

— Lewis Thomas

“Mutants are necessary to maintain the essence of our selves. Our genomes has negotiated a fragile balance between counterpoised forces, pairing strand with opposite…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

If one stretches out the DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell, one obtains a two-yard-long thread that is only ten atoms…

— Jeremy Narby