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Elizabeth (Liz) Helen Blackburn FRS (b. November 26, 1948 in Hobart, Tasmania) is an Australian-born U.S. biologist who studies the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes which protects the chromosome. Blackburn also co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere. She also worked in medical ethics, and was controversially fired from the President's Council on Bioethics.
Blackburn's parents, Harold and Marcia were both medical practitioners. Blackburn attended...
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