1 | Elizabeth Blackburn compares them to the plastic tips on the ends of shoelaces. | |
2 | Everyone knows that I am very happy at Blackburn, I have a lot of friends. | |
3 | Thankfully the win over Blackburn means we are slightly better off than we were. | |
4 | "Telomere length is more reflective of things that happen in your life than the genetic hand you are born with, " said Dr. Blackburn. | |
5 | Greider, a geneticist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, was Blackburn's student when the two made their discovery. |