Author: Elizabeth Blackburn

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I've only actively promoted what we always hope is good science.

I've only actively promoted what we always hope is good science.

- Elizabeth Blackburn

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.

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

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.

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

Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of time.

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

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

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

- Elizabeth Blackburn

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