Telomeres: All's well that ends well

Michael Eisenstein
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Michael Eisenstein: Michael Eisenstein is a freelance journalist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Nature, 2011, vol. 478, issue 7368, S13-S15

Abstract: Elizabeth Blackburn gave the first lecture at the 2011 Lindau meeting, describing her Nobel prizewinning work on telomeres. These chromosomal caps are known to play a role in cancer and are implicated in ageing — but their full biological utility remains a mystery.

Date: 2011
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