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Nobel Winner Elizabeth Blackburn on Telomeres
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Air date: October 18, 2009
Host: Kathy Miller, MD
Interview: Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD
Endowed chair in biology and physiology
University of California, San Francisco
The Nobel Prize for Medicine was announced earlier this month. It goes to three scientists who’ve been exploring the world of telomeres.
Think of telomeres as the genetic equivalent of the plastic tip on the chromosome shoelace: they keep the genetic material from fraying at the tips.
Elizabeth Blackburn from the University of California San Francisco was one of the three winners of the prestigious prize.
Back in 2005, Dr. Blackburn explained her work in telomeres to Sound Medicine's Dr. Kathy Miller.
Additional Resources:
- Read up on Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn's research, at UC San Francisco.
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