Elizabeth Blackburn 👩‍🔬

 

Biochemical

Elizabeth Helen Blackburn is an Australian biochemist and won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2009. Elizabeth was one of the first among biochemists to study telomeres, along with John Gall and Jack Szostak. Telomeres are the ends of the chromosomes in eukaryotic cells, which are necessary both for cell division and for maintaining the integrity and stability of the chromosomes. Blackburn and Greider also discovered that cancer cells are capable of continuing to produce greater amounts of telomerase, causing tumors to appear. This discovery may contribute to finding substances, methods or targets that are effective in slowing down the secretion of this enzyme and thus help in the treatment of cancer. "Having few women in science doesn't do science any good. Women can do science as well as men, so having few women is equivalent to losing a lot of scientific talent."

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