Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres: Deciphering the Ends of DNA
News On Women (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Powerful women were on display in October09, including Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom, the first woman in history to win a Nobel Prize for economics, as well as Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider, awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine....
WEBLOG DO FRAGA (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Longevity tied to genes that preserve tips of chromosomes Findings from Einstein study of healthy centenarians 13 nov 2009 - A team led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has found a clear link between living to 100 and inheriting a hyperactive version of an enzyme that rebuilds telomeres – the tip ends of chromosomes. The findings appear in the latest...
Stand Up To Cancer (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
In an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Margaret Foti, MD, PhD, CEO of SU2C partner the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), reminds us all what the Nobel Prize in Medicine represents - and why scientists like Drs. Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak deserve to be as well known as the celebrities and reality TV stars who've become household names. Dr. Blackburn is a member...
scaryideas (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Levi's : Nobel Women [Image] Levi's salutes Nobel's female five Levi's and Wieden + Kennedy Portland created this ad in recognition of the record five women who won Nobel prizes this year- Elinor Ostrom (Economics), Elizabeth Blackburn and Carole Greider (Medicine), Ada Yonath (Chemistry), and Herta Mueller (Literature). 39 women have won 40 Nobels (Marie Curie won twice!) since the prize was created...
School of Thinking (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Article from: The Australian AUSTRALIA’S Nobel prize-winning molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn lamented recently the professional difficulties facing female scientists – and a new study proves her right. Women still cluster at the bottom of the scientific heap, even in fields such as biology where they are well represented, according to a report released yesterday by the [...]
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
NSF funding in basic research yields great payoffs in scientific contributions worldwideThe National Science Foundation (NSF) congratulates the 2009 Nobel laureates, particularly those who have received NSF funding over the years: Jack W. Szostak, who shared the prize in physiology or medicine; Thomas A. Steitz, who shared the prize in chemistry; and Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson who earned...
The EEB and flow (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
As news of the latest Nobel prizes in physics and medicine were announced, science became a central story for many news outlets. Numerous stories and interviews were held about the discoveries that earned the laureates their just rewards. I’ve heard interviews with medicine winners, Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider (2/3 of the prize, the other being Jack Szostak), about their discovery of...
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Australian researcher Elizabeth Blackburn, whose co-discovery of telomeres has won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Credit: Elizabeth Finkel/COSMOS From Cosmos: More than 30 years after discovering an enzyme that prevents chromosomes from fraying, Elizabeth Blackburn is still unravelling the mystery of why our cells age. Elizabeth Blackburn is not a household name. But the string of...
Getting Better (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
The tweet came just about an hour ago announcing the well-deserved and much-predicted award of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Elizabeth Blackburn Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for their work on how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase. I wrote about this team and...
Science and Reason (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Now that research into telomeres and telomerase has (finally) garnered a Nobel Prize , it's a good time to write about recent research on the subject. Seminal work on telomeres by Elizabeth Blackburn, one of the Nobel winners, was published way back in 1978, and active studies have been going on ever since. So perhaps it's not surprising that the rate of new findings is not so rapid as occurs in newer...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
The role of immigrants and their contributions to society have been recognized in the United States as four of the seven 2009 Nobel prize winners from the U.S. were born in other lands. Seven of the Nobel Prize winners announced so far this week, including U.S. President Barack Obama, are U.S. citizens. But four of the winners are immigrants born outside of the United States. Elizabeth Blackburn, a...
Healthcare Economist (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
The Nobel Prize in Medicine went to Elizabeth Blackburn from the University of California, San Francisco, Jack Szostak from Harvard Medical School and Carol Greider from Johns Hopkins University. The nobel prize was awarded “for work on the existence and nature of telomerase, an enzyme that helps prevent the fraying of chromosomes and is core [...]
Gruntled Center (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Three women won science Nobel Prizes this week - Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Ada Yonath . All three are married mothers. After the dust-up over Lawrence Summers' entirely correct comments about the several factors that limit the proportion of women at the top of math and sciences professions, I have been particularly interested in women who combine biochemistry and family life. I think...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
ROYAL PALM BEACH, Fla., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The first anti-aging doctor licensed to offer TA-65 treatment in the U.S. predicted the Nobel Prize in medicine for Elizabeth Blackburn. Three Americans shared the prize, including Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for their research on telomeres, the "caps" at the end of chromosomes.
BBC NEWS | Nick Bryant's Australia (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Australia is currently the recipient of so many plaudits that is getting almost embarrassing. On the economic front, the "wonder from down under" goes from strength to strength. This week it became the first G20 country to raise interest rates from the emergency level. Unemployment actually went down, bucking the global trend and surprising local economists who had all predicted a small...
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