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...cited enhanced analysis of the risks and benefits of screening as the reason for the new guidelines. But the recommendations went straight to the heart of the emotionally charged debate over the Democratic-sponsored health care reform legislation that is working its way through Congress. Republicans like Representative Marsha Blackburn charged that "this is how rationing begins. This is the little toe in the edge of the water." No one was more surprised, or less prepared, for the uproar over the new guidelines than the advisory panel itself. As a result, the merits of what the group is now recommending...
Elizabeth Blackburn...
...discoveries by Blackburn, Greider and Szostak have added a new dimension to our understanding of the cell, shed light on disease mechanisms, and stimulated the development of potential new therapies,” said the selection committee’s statement...
Telomeres, which Szostak first described with Blackburn in a 1982 paper, are regions of repeated DNA sequences at the ends of DNA strands that protect the overall structures from degrading during replication...
...Blackburn is currently a professor of biology and physiology at the University of California, San Francisco...