http://www.ibiology.org/ibioseminars/genetics-gene-regulation/elizabeth-blackburn-part-1.html Lecture Overview Telomerase, a specialized ribonucleprotein reverse transcriptase, is important for long-term eukaryotic cell proliferation and genomic stabil...
http://www.ibiology.org/ibioseminars/genetics-gene-regulation/elizabeth-blackburn-part-2.html Telomerase, a specialized ribonucleprotein reverse transcriptase, is important for long-term eukaryotic cell proliferation and genomic stability, because it r...
Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak will share the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on telomeres and telomerase. Dr. Bruce Stillman, President of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and a former colleague of Carol G...
Watch how stress effects our genes! The genetic structures called telomeres protect the ends of our chromosomes from fraying. As we age, our telomeres shorten. Stress by way of stress hormones accelerate the shortening of telomeres. A telomere is a reg...