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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
When scientists get old, they get interested in the brain, and I'm a little bit afraid I'm falling into that.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being senior enough in the field, having enough solidity, I don't feel afraid of being marginalized.
- Doctors
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one ever said, 'Be a doctor.' But because so many members of my extended family - aunts, uncles - were doctors, there was this expectation that I'd probably be a physician.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided I wanted to go to Cambridge, and then I got introduced to Fred Sanger. I was very conscientious, and I asked him when I first got there if I should start reading up on things. But he said, 'No, I think you can just start these experiments,' so I plunged right in.
- Class
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Cambridge, there was a completely unintimidating culture, and there were no class divisions among the students.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Studying organisms at a molecular level was totally compelling because it was moving from being a naturalist, which was the 19th-century kind of science, to being very focused and really getting to the heart of these molecules.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Exercise mitigates the effects of stress - and stress, we know, shortens telomeres. In fact, early studies indicate that stress reduction techniques like meditation help people maintain the length of their telomeres.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pretty good about getting some exercise every day - well, most days. The secret for me was to put the elliptical in front of the TV.
- Healthy People
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- Nov 07, 2020
This enzyme, called telomerase, slows the rate at which telomeres degrade, and research indicates that healthy people with longer telomeres have less risk of developing the common illnesses of aging - like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, which are three big killers today.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, when you look at different types of cells, such as fibroblasts, which form connective tissue, or epithelial cells, from saliva, you see general correlations within a person. If telomeres are up for one cell type, they're up for others overall.
- Being Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're involved in a very large study that's federally funded and being done with Kaiser Permanente, and saliva is a very non-invasive way to get cells from the body.
- Extensive
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020