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Books by Elizabeth Blackburn

Elizabeth Blackburn is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for the discovery of telomerase. Her research established the fundamental mechanism by which chromosomes are protected during cell division and how that protection degrades with age. She has also served as president of the Salk Institute. Elissa Epel, her co-author, is a professor of psychiatry at UCSF who directs the Aging, Metabolism, and Emotion Center and has conducted extensive research on stress, behavior, and cellular aging.