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Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn
Australian Scientist
Born: Nov 26, 1948
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Telomeres are the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes in cells. Chromosomes carry the genetic information. Telomeres are buffers. They are like the tips of shoelaces. If you lose the tips, the ends start fraying. Elizabeth Blackburn
You Lose Carry Genetic Like Protective Cells Tips Ends Information Caps Start
I chose biochemistry as my major and graduated after 4 years with an Honours degree in Biochemistry. During that time, I had come to love biochemistry research, although I was just getting my feet wet in laboratory research. Elizabeth Blackburn
Love Time Degree Research Honours Had Major Feet Come Although Years Laboratory Wet Getting Graduated Just After To Love Chose Biochemistry
In humans, the thing is that as we mature, our telomeres slowly wear down. So the question has always been: 'Did that matter?' Well, more and more, it seems like it matters. Elizabeth Blackburn
Matter Matters Down Our Wear Slowly Seems More More And More Like Well Always Been Question Mature Did Thing Humans
As maize became important for human food worldwide, modern agricultural research on maize breeding continued the corn breeding begun thousands of years ago in the Central American highlands. Elizabeth Blackburn
Food Important Research Corn Worldwide Thousands Thousands Of Years Became Continue Years Years Ago Begun American Modern Human Central Breeding Agricultural
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
You Complicated Intricate Know How Want Interested Works Keeps
We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a variety of diseases that are becoming very common, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and certain cancers. Elizabeth Blackburn
Diabetes Other Statistical Seeing Risk Variety Clear Between Becoming Very Links Disease Diseases Cancers Common Shortness Certain Groups Cardiovascular
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
You Possible Would Would-Be Risk Factors Take Had Red Look Test Flag Shortening Should Suggesting
I was born in the small city of Hobart in Tasmania, Australia, in 1948. My parents were family physicians. My grandfather and great grandfather on my mother's side were geologists. Elizabeth Blackburn
Great Family Mother Parents Side City Born Small Physicians Great-Grandfather Were Australia Grandfather
I spent my first 4 years living in the tiny town of Snug, by the sea near Hobart. Curious about animals, I would pick up ants in our backyard and jellyfish on the beach. Elizabeth Blackburn
Animals First Living Our Spent Backyard Would About Beach Pick Town Years Up Curious Ants Tiny Sea Near
Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child. Elizabeth Blackburn
Me Animals Biology Seemed Arising Perhaps Most Sciences Child Interesting Fascination
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
Time Science Lost Interwoven Arbitrary Tracing Beginnings Often Stories
In my early work, our molecular views of telomeres were first focused on the DNA. Elizabeth Blackburn
Work First Early Work Our Focused Were Molecular Views Early
I was using very unconventional methods to sequence the telemetric DNA, originally. Elizabeth Blackburn
Unconventional Methods Very Sequence Using Originally
I've only actively promoted what we always hope is good science. Elizabeth Blackburn
Hope Good Science Promoted Only Always Actively
In my lab, we're finding that psychological stress actually ages cells, which can be seen when you measure the wearing down of the tips of the chromosomes, those telomeres. Elizabeth Blackburn
You Stress Seen Down Those Finding Wearing Lab Cells Tips Psychological Which Ages Measure Actually
Researchers have found that the brain definitely sends nerves directly to organs of the immune system and not just to the heart and the lower gut. In that way, too, the brain is influencing the body. Elizabeth Blackburn
Heart Too Way Definitely System Immune Nerves Gut Directly Brain Sends Just Influencing Lower Body Organs Researchers Found
In the 1970s, I did a Ph.D. with Fred Sanger in Cambridge who was in the process of inventing ways to map what's inside DNA. He later won the Nobel Prize. Elizabeth Blackburn
Later Ways Inside Fred Inventing He Nobel Nobel Prize Cambridge Won Prize Did Process Who Map
Medicine has been successful by treating diseases in a very specific way once the damage is done. But telomere length integrates a lot of factors together and gives you an overall picture of risk for what is now emerging as a lot of diseases that tend to occur together, such as diabetes and heart disease. Elizabeth Blackburn
You Together Heart Diabetes Picture Medicine Once Way Has-Been Emerging Risk Gives Tend Factors Overall Occur Been Lot Heart Disease Very Disease Diseases Done Length Successful Now Specific Damage Treating
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 as molecular markers for inflammation and telomere health. Elizabeth Blackburn
Health Conservative Markers Relationships Intimate Statement Some Between Passive Very Length Molecular Things
When scientists get old, they get interested in the brain, and I'm a little bit afraid I'm falling into that. Elizabeth Blackburn
Old Bit Scientists Falling Brain Get Afraid Interested Little Little Bit
Being senior enough in the field, having enough solidity, I don't feel afraid of being marginalized. Elizabeth Blackburn
Field Enough Solidity Having Feel Senior Afraid Being Marginalized
Exercise mitigates the effects of stress - and stress, we know, shortens telomeres. In fact, early studies indicate that stress reduction techniques like meditation help people maintain the length of their telomeres. Elizabeth Blackburn
People Stress Meditation Indicate Fact Studies Maintain Like Know Exercise Reduction Effects In Fact Length Help Help People Techniques Early
We think there are lifestyle factors that boost telomerase naturally. Elizabeth Blackburn
Think Boost Factors Lifestyle Naturally
If we think of our chromosomes - they carry our genetic material - as being like shoelaces, I work on the plastic tips at the end that protect them. Elizabeth Blackburn
Work Think Our Carry Genetic Like Protect Material End Tips Being Them Plastic
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
Smoking Stress Chronic Nutritional High Lead Supplements Observational Studies Accelerate Exercise Reducing Psychological Shortening Show Help
Ageing is so many different things, and cells being able to self-renew is part of the picture but not all of it. Elizabeth Blackburn
Picture Able Part So Many Different Things Cells Being Different Ageing Many Different Things Things

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