On 10/6/09 7:26 AM, wf3h wrote:
On Oct 5, 9:53 pm, H the wrote:
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn FRS, born November 26, 1948, in Hobart,
Tasmania, is an Australian-American biological researcher at the
University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), who studies the
telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the
chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that
replenishes the telomere.

For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine, sharing it with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak. She also
worked in medical ethics, and was controversially fired from the
President's Council on Bioethics.

Blackburn was appointed a member of the President George W. Bush's
Council on Bioethics in 2001. She supported human embryonic cell
research, in opposition to the Bush Administration. Her Council terms
were terminated by White House directive on February 27, 2004. This was
followed by expressions of outrage over her removal by many scientists,
who maintained that she was fired because of political opposition to her
advice.


she should have said the earth is 6000 years old. bush would have
kept her.

I've been keeping loose track of the states U.S. Nobel Prize winners
live in or work in, just for giggles, mind you. Their favorite color
seems to be...blue.

What a surprise.


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