# Carol Greider (@carol-greider)

Carol Greider was a American molecular biologist. As a graduate student in Blackburn's laboratory, Greider developed an assay that revealed an enzyme adding telomere repeats.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Carol Greider's public record._

## Topics

- [From Basic Biology to Disease](/@carol-greider/from-basic-biology-to-disease.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [An RNA-Protein Enzyme](/@carol-greider/an-rna-protein-enzyme.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Finding Telomerase](/@carol-greider/finding-telomerase.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2009/greider/facts/
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2009/popular-information/
- blog: https://www.ucsc.edu/directory/people/carol-greider

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "carol-greider", "question": "…"}`.