"Checking your telomere length is a bit like weighing yourself: you get this single number which depends on a lot of factors. Telomere length gives a sense of your underlying health."

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About Elizabeth Blackburn

Elizabeth Blackburn is an Australian-American molecular biologist whose work on telomeres and telomerase transformed cell biology research. She shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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