Elizabeth Blackburn
b. 1948 · Australia · Medicine, Biology
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2009
Discovered telomerase, central to ageing and cancer research.
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- Dean Ornish
1953 · Integrative Medicine, Medicine
Their joint telomere trial is the strongest biomarker evidence for lifestyle reversal.
- Shinya Yamanaka
1962 · Medicine, Biology
Telomere biology and cell ageing frame the rejuvenation questions reprogramming raises.
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