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Elizabeth Blackburn is a nobel prize specialist with an H-index of 113 at UCSFTelomere Biology (Member). Has been published in Nature, Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Based in Unknown, Unknown, Global.
Biography
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is the former president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. 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, sharing it with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak, becoming the first Australian woman Nobel laureate.
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CellScienceProc Natl Acad Sci U S ANat Rev Genet
Key Publications
Dynamic imaging of genomic loci in living human cells by an optimized CRISPR/Cas system.
Human telomere biology: A contributory and interactive factor in aging, disease risks, and protection.
Accelerated telomere shortening in response to life stress.
Tracking telomerase.
The telomere syndromes.
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