TED Talk of the week Elizabeth Blackburn: The science of cells that never get old

What makes our bodies age … our skin wrinkle, our hair turn white, our immune systems weaken? Biologist Elizabeth Blackburn shares a Nobel Prize for her work finding out the answer, with the discovery of telomerase: an enzyme that replenishes the caps at the end of chromosomes, which break down when cells divide. Learn more about Blackburn’s groundbreaking research — including how we might have more control over aging than we think.

Video: https://ted.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=07487d1456302a286cf9c4ccc&id=ec155da5e2&e=d3135666a2