I chose biochemistry as my major and graduated after 4 years with an Honours degree in Biochemistry. During that time, I had come to love biochemistry research, although I was just getting my feet wet in laboratory research.

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• Elizabeth Blackburn:

  Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so

• Elizabeth Blackburn:

  For me, arguably the story of telomeres and telomerase began thousands of years ago, in the cornfie

• Elizabeth Blackburn:

  As maize became important for human food worldwide, modern agricultural research on maize breeding

• Elizabeth Blackburn:

  In my early work, our molecular views of telomeres were first focused on the DNA.

• Elizabeth Blackburn:

  Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane an

• Elizabeth Blackburn:

  I was using very unconventional methods to sequence the telemetric DNA, originally.

• Elizabeth Blackburn:

  What is it that keeps you so interested in the telomere? It's so intricate and complicated, and you

• Elizabeth Blackburn:

  Generally, we try to have a situation where the person is healthy, so you're not confounded by dise

• Elizabeth Blackburn:

  I've only actively promoted what we always hope is good science.

• Elizabeth Blackburn:

  Telomeres are the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes in cells. Chromosomes carry the geneti