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Nature Outlook 2015: Science Master Class

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Christine Gorman

What a Ball of Wool can tell You about Healthy Aging

Seeking for objective measures that indicate how healthy you are.

Jalees Rehman

The Stress of Ageing

How do I knock off thirty years from my age?

Beatrice Lugger

Nature Video: A life in science with Elizabeth Blackburn

Elizabeth Blackburn grew up in Hobart on the Australian island of Tasmania. It was a long journey from there to a Nobel prize and the lab she runs at the University of California in San Francisco. Malaria researcher Clare Smith is also a Hobart girl, and she’s trying to decide whether to follow in Blackburn’s […]

Christine Ottery

Take control of your telomeres – Elizabeth Blackburn

It was an accidental mutation of the Tetrahymena thermophila, a pond organism, during a lab experiment that revealed that the enzyme telomerase keeps the protective caps on the end of chromosomes long. Speaking at the 61st Meeting of Nobel Laureates at Lindau, Elisabeth Blackburn compared the caps, called telomeres, to the tips on the end of a shoelace that prevent it from fraying. Telomeres […]