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By Catherine Brady. 392 pp., illustrated. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2007. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-262-02622-2.

Elizabeth Blackburn is a superbly innovative experimentalist, a charismatic public speaker, and a warm and supportive advocate for the many young women and men who have trained in her research group. Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres, the new biography by Catherine Brady, therefore raises high expectations.

In telling the story of telomeres, the author's scholarship is commendable. Telomeres are the protective DNA–protein complexes at the ends of linear chromosomes, and telomerase is the unusual RNA-containing enzyme that is responsible for the synthesis and maintenance of telomeric DNA in most organisms. Telomerase has the ability to confer human cells . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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