4 Quotes & Sayings By Elizabeth Blackburn

Elizabeth Blackburn has made major contributions to the biology of telomeres, the ends of chromosomes which protect them from degradation. She is currently at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she co-directs the UCSF Genetics Genomics Institute. Her research results have been published in more than 100 scientific journals and has received extensive media coverage.

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Studying organisms at a molecular level was totally compelling because it was moving from being a naturalist, which was the 19th-century kind of science, to being very focused and really getting to the heart of these molecules. Elizabeth Blackburn
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Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of time. Elizabeth Blackburn
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When you bring telomerase RNA levels down by using a mechanism that targets the RNA for destruction, the cells which were running on very high telomerase levels are now running on a lean diet of telomerase. Elizabeth Blackburn