# Elizabeth Blackburn (@elizabeth-blackburn)

Elizabeth Blackburn was a Australian-American molecular biologist. Blackburn characterized repeating DNA at chromosome ends in Tetrahymena and, with Jack Szostak, showed telomere DNA protects linear chromosomes.


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

## Topics

- [Health and Aging Claims](/@elizabeth-blackburn/health-and-aging-claims.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Discovering Telomerase](/@elizabeth-blackburn/discovering-telomerase.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Telomere Sequences](/@elizabeth-blackburn/telomere-sequences.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2009/blackburn/facts/
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2009/popular-information/
- blog: https://profiles.ucsf.edu/elizabeth.blackburn

## 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": "elizabeth-blackburn", "question": "…"}`.