Blackburn co-authored "The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer." Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More from Science In 2009, Elizabeth Blackbrun ...

In the mid-1970s, Elizabeth Blackburn, who was working as a postdoctoral associate in Joseph Gall's laboratory, set out to determine the telomere sequences of a minichromosome that contained the ...

Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, the coauthor of "The Telomere Effect," received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009. She was honored for her discoveries about human DNA, and her work has ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn explains the phenomenon of apparent aging that happens overnight. When a person experiences a massively stressful event, they can appear to ...

WSU researchers have created HuT mice with human-like short telomeres, allowing for groundbreaking studies on aging, cancer, ...

Telomeres provide chromosome caps that safeguard our genetic heritage, and as such they are essential for human life. Elizabeth Blackburn and Jack Szostak discovered that a unique DNA sequence in the ...

Zhu began telomere studies in the mid-1990s under researchers and Nobel Prize winners Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, and J. Michael Bishop, MD, both pioneers in understanding telomeres and cancer.

The HuT mice also allow researchers to explore the effects of environmental ... builds on Zhu’s decades of work in telomere biology, which began in the 1990s under Nobel Prize-winning scientists ...