Generally, we try to have a situation where the person is healthy, so you're not confounded by disease. So, that means that healthy individuals are donating their blood samples for the studies. Elizabeth Blackburn bloodconfounddisease Change image and share on social
We're collecting about 100,000 telomere lengths in saliva samples and then looking at how those relate to both the extensive longitudinal clinical records that Kaiser is collecting and the genome sequence variations. Elizabeth Blackburn 000clinicalcollect share on social
When scientists get old, they get interested in the brain, and I'm a little bit afraid I'm falling into that. Elizabeth Blackburn afraidbitebrain Change image and share on social
Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of time. Elizabeth Blackburn arbitrarybeginninginterweave Change image and share on social
Studying organisms at a molecular level was totally compelling because it was moving from being a naturalist, which was the 19th-century kind of science, to being very focused and really getting to the heart of these molecules. Elizabeth Blackburn 19thcenturycompel share on social
Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre. Elizabeth Blackburn arcanebiologybizarre Change image and share on social
Basically, when you look at different types of cells, such as fibroblasts, which form connective tissue, or epithelial cells, from saliva, you see general correlations within a person. If telomeres are up for one cell type, they're up for others overall. Elizabeth Blackburn basicallycellconnective share on social
