The Tiny Key to Ageing
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Hey there! I’m Vanessa and you’re just in time, take a seat. Because I have a story and it begins in Australia, on the island of Tasmania. This is where biologist Elizabeth Blackburn was born and raised. “Hello! My name’s Elizabeth Blackburn.” She grew up to study biology at the smallest scale–in molecules and cells–using one of Earth’s smallest creatures: tetrahymena. Liz had no idea these creatures might hold clues to our health. Inside our cells, genes are arranged on chromosomes, ladders of DNA that hold instructions for the building blocks that built you. To keep the cell from thinking chromosome ends are broken DNA, they have special caps called telomeres, kind of like the plastic tip at the end of your shoelaces. Each time your DNA is ...
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Hey there! I’m Vanessa and you’re just in time, take a seat. Because I have a story and it begins in Australia, on the island of Tasmania. This is where biologist Elizabeth Blackburn was born and raised. “Hello! My name’s Elizabeth Blackburn.” She grew up to study biology at the smallest scale–in molecules and cells–using one of Earth’s smallest creatures: tetrahymena. Liz had no idea these creatures might hold clues to our health. Inside our cells, genes are arranged on chromosomes, ladders of DNA that hold instructions for the building blocks that built you. To keep the cell from thinking chromosome ends are broken DNA, they have special caps called telomeres, kind of like the plastic tip at the end of your shoelaces. Each time your DNA is ...
