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Telomeres

Elizabeth Blackburn (Editor)

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University of California, San Francisco. Genetics research on the molecular structure and function of chromosome ends, with implications for cancer and aging. 17 contributors, 16 U.S.

396 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1995

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Elizabeth Blackburn is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is the former President of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Previously she was a biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who studied the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. In 1984, Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere, with Carol W. Greider. For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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