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No one ever said, 'Be a doctor.' But because so many members of my extended family - aunts, uncles - were doctors, there was this expectation that I'd probably be a physician.

~Elizabeth Blackburn

Topics: Aunts Because Doctor Doctors Ever Expectation Extended Extended Family Family Many Members Physician Said Uncles Were

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This enzyme, called telomerase, slows the rate at which telomeres degrade, and research indicates that healthy people with longer telomeres have less risk of developing the common illnesses of aging - like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, which are three big killers today.

~Elizabeth Blackburn

Topics: Aging Big Cancer Common Degrade Developing Diabetes Disease Healthy Heart Heart Disease Illnesses Less Like Longer People Rate Research Risk Three Today Which

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Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.

~Elizabeth Blackburn

Topics: Biology Bizarre First Fundamental May Principles Reveals Seem Sometimes Through

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Being senior enough in the field, having enough solidity, I don't feel afraid of being marginalized.

~Elizabeth Blackburn

Topics: Afraid Being Enough Feel Field Having Marginalized Senior

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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

Topics: After Although Biochemistry Chose Come Degree Feet Getting Graduated Had Honours Just Laboratory Love Major Research Time To Love Wet Years

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Challenges in medicine are moving from 'Treat the symptoms after the house is on fire' to 'Can we preserve the house intact?'

~Elizabeth Blackburn

Topics: After Challenges Fire House Intact Medicine Moving Preserve Symptoms Treat

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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

Topics: Able Ageing Being Cells Different Different Things Many Part Picture So Many Different Things Things

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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

Topics: Arbitrary Beginnings Interwoven Lost Often Science Stories Time

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Generally, we try to have a situation where the person is healthy, so you're not confounded by disease. So, that means that healthy individuals are donating their blood samples for the studies.

~Elizabeth Blackburn

Topics: Blood Confounded Disease Generally Healthy Individuals Means Person Samples Situation Studies Try Where You

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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

Topics: About Animals Ants Backyard Beach Curious First Living Near Our Pick Sea Spent Tiny Town Up Would Years

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Scientist

Born: November 26th, 1948

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