Best Quote by Elizabeth Blackburn

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

Checking your telomere length is a bit like weighing yourself: you get this single number which depends on a lot of factors. Telomere length…

— 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

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

What is it that keeps you so interested in the telomere? It's so intricate and complicated, and you want to know how it works.

— Elizabeth Blackburn

Observational studies show that exercise, nutritional supplements and reducing psychological stress can help. Chronic high stress and smoking can lead to accelerated telomere shortening.

— 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

But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure…

— Elliot Richardson

“Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was." Dag Hammarskj’ld”

— Change Your Life Publishing

“No test can measure anything important.   On”

— Naomi Shihab Nye

British Forces should be in a position to give back in a ten fold measure any attack that the Germans may attempt.

— Frederick Banting

Success will not be yours unless you measure your dream. And guess what? Once you have measured it, people will say it's too big…

— Francisco Leon