Elizabeth Blackburn

Give scientists space: Nobel laureate

The Age (Free subscription) | 02/18/2010

Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn urges Kevin Rudd to create five-year grants for scientists to free their work from being restricted to short funding cycles.

Cancer scientist receives top honour

Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 01/26/2010

Hobart-born Nobel Prize winning Professor Elizabeth Blackburn can now add an AC, the highest of Australia Day honours, to her list of accolades and titles.

• Cancer scientist receives top honour - The Age

Curiosity key to rich discoveries

Fox Sports (Free subscription) | 01/25/2010

ELIZABETH Blackburn, the Australian biologist who won the 2009 Nobel Medicine Prize, has a message for those who count every bit of research money.

2009: the science year in review from Australia

The Plummet Onions (Free subscription) | 12/30/2009

The ABC has wrapped up the year’s big science news from Down Under. The antipodean view of science highlights in 2009 includes: Dr Elizabeth Blackburn becoming the first Australian-born female scientist to receive a Nobel Prize, in Medicine, for her work in discovering telomeres and their role in ageing. Finding more planets outside our solar system, and astronomers peering deeper [...]

"There are Reasons Evolution Added a Time-Limit to Life" - The Unintended Consequences of Immortality

The Daily Galaxy (Free subscription) | 12/29/2009

Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szotack: you may not know those names because they aren't on American Idol, they just did something silly like discover the key to immortality and an essential ingredient in curing cancer. But don't worry,...

A Nobel Prize For Better Understanding Of...

WEBLOG DO FRAGA (Free subscription) | 12/14/2009

A Nobel Prize For Better Understanding Of The Ageing Mechanism 14 dec 2009--This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to three American scientists Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for the discovery of "how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase". The research contributed to the understanding of how telomeres protect chromosomes...

A Nobel Prize For Better Understanding Of The Ageing Mechanism

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 12/13/2009

This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to three American scientists Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for the discovery of "how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"...

Our laureate accepts award for medicine

The Age (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009

Australian-born scientist Elizabeth Blackburn became our first female Nobel laureate when she shared the medicine prize.

• Aussie among recipients of Nobel prizes - Sydney Morning Herald

Howard quits Lloyd’s Open Form arbitration panel

lloydslist.com (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009

Michael Howard QC resigns and is replaced by Elizabeth Blackburn QC.

A Nobel Prize for Better Understanding of the Ageing Mechanism

Business Wire (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009

BRUSSELS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to three American scientists Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for the discovery of "how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase”. The research contributed to the understanding of how telomeres protect chromosomes from degradation and identified telomerase,...

Nobel Prize: Watching Obama's lecture

The Swamp (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009

by Mark Silva They've already had the lecture on "Telomeres and Telomerase: The Means to the End,'' by Elizabeth Blackburn, one of the Nobel Prize winners in medicine. And they've already heard the lecture on "Decoding the Genetic Message,'' by Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, one of the prize winners in chemistry. And the ones on "Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems'' by Elinor...

Do women have an equal chance in science?

[Geeks are Sexy] (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009

Two female winners of this year’s Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine have called for more flexibility in working practices to allow women to play a greater role in science. Elizabeth Blackburn (pictured left) and Carol Greider (pictured right) told the Associated Press that men and women start their science careers in roughly equal numbers, but [...] Related posts: Spoof awards honor offbeat...

Powerful Women on Display in October 09

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....

Longevity tied to genes that preserve tips...

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...

Margaret Foti on Cancer Research

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...