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Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child.

~Elizabeth Blackburn

Topics: Animals Arising Biology Child Fascination Interesting Me Most Perhaps Sciences Seemed

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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

Topics: Complicated How Interested Intricate Keeps Know Want Works You

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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

Topics: Becoming Between Cardiovascular Certain Clear Common Diabetes Disease Diseases Groups Links Other Risk Seeing Statistical Variety Very

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When scientists get old, they get interested in the brain, and I'm a little bit afraid I'm falling into that.

~Elizabeth Blackburn

Topics: Afraid Bit Brain Falling Get Interested Little Little Bit Old Scientists

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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

Topics: Because Being Compelling Focused Getting Heart Kind Level Molecular Molecules Moving Naturalist Organisms Really Science Studying Totally Very Which

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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

Topics: Australia Born City Family Grandfather Great Mother Parents Physicians Side Small Were I Was Born

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For me, arguably the story of telomeres and telomerase began thousands of years ago, in the cornfields of the Maya highlands of Central America.

~Elizabeth Blackburn

Topics: America Arguably Began Central Central America Me Story Thousands Thousands Of Years Years Years Ago

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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

Topics: Agricultural American Became Begun Breeding Central Continue Corn Food Human Important Modern Research Thousands Thousands Of Years Worldwide Years Years Ago

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

~Elizabeth Blackburn

Topics: Early Early Work First Focused Molecular Our Views Were Work Dna

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I was using very unconventional methods to sequence the telemetric DNA, originally.

~Elizabeth Blackburn

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Scientist

Born: November 26th, 1948

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