An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16061 entries, 14144 authors and 1947 subjects. Updated: December 10, 2024

BLACKBURN, Elizabeth Helen

2 entries
  • 8387

A tandemly repeated sequence at the termini of the extrachromosomal ribosomal RNA genes in Tetrahymena.

J. Mol. Biol., 120 (1) 33-53., 1978.

In 1975–1977, Blackburn, working as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University with Gall, discovered the unusual nature of telomeres, with their simple repeated DNA sequences composing chromosome ends.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Cell Biology, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, GERIATRICS / Gerontology / Aging, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 8388

Identification of a specific telomere terminal transferase activity in Tetrahymena extracts.

Cell, 43 (2 Pt 1) 405-413, 1985.

Blackburn and Grieder discovered telomerase in the ciliate Tetrahymena.

In 2009 Blackburn and Grieder shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jack W. Szostak "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase."

See also No. 8387.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Cell Biology, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, GERIATRICS / Gerontology / Aging, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999