2009

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Links to other sites from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Videos Video lecture by Elizabeth Blackburn: Part 1: The Roles of Telomeres and Telomerase Video lecture by Elizabeth Blackburn: Part 2: Telomeres and Telomerase in Human Stem Cells and in Cancer https://youtu.be/zqMoDdHWFBA Video lecture by Elizabeth Blackburn: Part 3: Stress, Telomeres and Telomerase in Humans…

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I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1940, and my family lived in an apartment above a paint store in the downtown area until 1949. Although my father had obtained a law degree from Marquette University in Milwaukee, he became the administrator in charge of personnel at the Milwaukee County Hospital. My mother grew up…

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From Chidambaram to Cambridge: A Life in Science ChildhoodI was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance. When I was born, my father, C.V. Ramakrishnan, was away on a postdoctoral fellowship in Madison, Wisconsin, with the famous enzymologist David…

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Nobel Prize Talks: Ada E. Yonath Released 2014-02-20 2014 is the International Year of Crystallography. A major contributor to the field is Ada Yonath, 2009 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. In this conversation she talks about her life as a scientist and her hardworking childhood where there was never a spare minute. Yonath also discusses the…

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Nobel Prize Talks: Elizabeth Blackburn Released 2014-03-27 People age biologically at very different rates, according to Elizabeth Blackburn. In this conversation the 2009 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine discusses how her scientific discoveries concerning telomeres transform the way we look upon aging, and as longevity increases over time, how we can look upon the…

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Interview transcript [George Smith] Hello [Adam Smith] Good morning. May I speak to George Smith please? [GS] Speaking. [AS] Oh hello. My name is Adam Smith. I’m calling from the official web site of the Nobel Foundation, in Stockholm, Sweden. [GS] Oh my goodness. [AS] Have…

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Interview transcript Charles and Gwen Kao, welcome to Stockholm. Gwen Kao: Thank you. Charles Kao: Thanks. It’s so lovely, it’s very nice. It’s a beautiful place, its always dark but they know how to make light out of darkness. It’s been two months since the Nobel Prize was announced. How has the…

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Interview transcript [Willard Boyle] And a good morning to you, sir! [Adam Smith] Good morning to you! And, of course, congratulations. [WB] Well, thank you very much. [AS] It’s been … [WB] I gather you were talking to George Smith? [AS] Yes, yesterday. [WB] That’s good.…

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