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Born in Tasmania and now Morris Herzstein Professor of Biology and Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, Blackburn discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the caps at each end of our chromosomes.

These caps, called telomeres, keep our DNA intact and our cells where they belong. Our bodies would be chaotic without them.

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