Quotes About Telomere

#1. We're collecting about 100,000 telomere lengths in saliva samples and then looking at how those relate to both the extensive longitudinal clinical records that Kaiser is collecting and the genome sequence variations.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#2. If a test showed you had telomere shortening, it would be a red flag suggesting you should take a look at possible risk factors.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#3. Checking your telomere length is a bit like weighing yourself: you get this single number which depends on a lot of factors. Telomere length gives a sense of your underlying health.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#4. We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a variety of diseases that are becoming very common, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and certain cancers.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#5. What is it that keeps you so interested in the telomere? It's so intricate and complicated, and you want to know how it works.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#6. The goal is to learn more about telomere length and other markers of ageing, how best to measure these markers, how they are related to health and lifestyle, and how people respond to learning their own telomere length results.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#7. Observational studies show that exercise, nutritional supplements and reducing psychological stress can help. Chronic high stress and smoking can lead to accelerated telomere shortening.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#8. The conservative statement is that telomere length is a biomarker, but it's probably not passive. There are some very intimate relationships between things such as molecular markers for inflammation and telomere health.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#9. I kissed Ryan, and it charged him up like a freaking Duracell.

Kelly Oram

#10. The faults of women, children, servants, the weak, the indigent, and the ignorant are the faults of husbands, father, masters, the strong, the rich, and the learned." Wal!

Sapper

#11. A Voice from I Don't Know Where

Mary Oliver

#12. An actor cannot say no, it's against his job. If he wants the part he has to say yes. [But] it's very bad for you to say you can do something and then not do it, so you have to manage to do it.

Olivier Martinez

#13. Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

Jane Austen

#14. It is not something I must do but something I want to do ...

Jim Fixx

#15. Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#16. There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#17. I never really knew anything about friendship before I was in the Army. Did you Vince?"
"Not a thing. It's the best thing there is. Just About.

J.D. Salinger

#18. A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

Georg Buchner

#19. Meanwhile, the chemical industry has mounted an aggressive campaign to discredit organic food. And without the knowledge or consent of most Americans, two-thirds of the products on our supermarket shelves now contain genetically engineered ingredients.

John Robbins

#20. U.S. surgeons operate on the wrong body part as often as 40 times a week.

Marty Makary