Elizabeth H. Blackburn

3 U.S. scientists share Nobel Prize in medicine

2009-10-06 00:00:00

Three U.S. scientists who discovered key aspects of how cells and animals age and how cancer cells become immortal have won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Elizabeth Blackburn of UC San Francisco, Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins...

ISRAEL: Nobel laureate Ada Yonath irks right wing, feminists

2009-10-14 16:32:18

Robert Swan donates shoe to East Jordan Shoe Club

2013-04-22 06:05:00

EAST JORDAN -- Matt Hamilton's Shoe Club at East Jordan Middle School is dedicated to helping students learn to set goals and a mission for their lives. Hamilton, a history teacher at the school, has collected shoes from people who excel at what they do...

Unique East Jordan club inspired by footwear of famous

2012-10-04 12:10:00

"Dream Big" is the first thing one sees upon entering East Jordan Middle School teacher Matt Hamilton's classroom, along with the shelves lining the room with hundreds of shoes on them. Hamilton's Shoe Club is dedicated to helping middle school students...

Exercise: The Anti-Aging Shield

2010-06-16 00:00:00

The biological life span of any species is roughly six times the stretch between birth and maturity. Using this formula, the human life span is about 120 years, which is borne out in the record books. The oldest people who have ever lived all topped out...

Nobel Prize: Watching Obama's lecture

2009-12-09 16:24:09

by Mark Silva They've already had the lecture on "Telomeres and Telomerase: The Means to the End,'' by Elizabeth Blackburn, one of the Nobel Prize winners in medicine. And they've already heard the lecture on "Decoding the Genetic Message,'' by......

Americans Win Nobel Prize for Medicine

2009-10-05 00:00:00

Three Americans won the Nobel prize in medicine on Monday for discovering how chromosomes protect themselves as cells divide, work that has inspired experimental cancer therapies and may offer insights into aging. The research by Elizabeth H. Blackburn,...

Americans Ostrom and Williamson win Nobel economics prize, Ostrom 1st female winner

2009-10-12 05:45:00

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Americans Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson won the Nobel economics prize on Monday for their analyses of economic governance — the rules by which people exercise authority in companies and economic systems. Ostrom was...

San Diego native shares Nobel Prize for medicine

2009-10-05 11:53:00

One of the three American scientists sharing this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is a San Diego native, and another is a professor at the University of Calfornia. Carol W. Greider, who works at the Johns Hopkins University School of...

. Greider and Blackburn were the first women to simultaneously win the prize in medicine.

2011-02-21 08:04:53