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" What intrigues basic scientists like me is that anytime we do a series of experiments, there are going to be three or four new questions that come up when you think you've answered one. "

Carol W. Greider

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" In 1978, Elizabeth Blackburn, working with Joe Gall, identified the DNA sequence of telomeres. Every time a cell divides, it gets shorter. But telomeres usually don't. So there must be something happening to the telomeres to keep their length in equilibrium. "

Carol W. Greider

" I finished my Ph.D. at Berkeley in November 1987 and took a position as an independent fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in January 1988. "

Carol W. Greider

" My father worked in high-energy nuclear physics, and my mother was a mycologist and a geneticist. After both parents completed postdoctoral fellowships in San Diego in 1962, my father took a faculty position in the Physics Department at Yale, and so the family moved to New Haven, Connecticut. "

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" I think actively promoting women in science is very important because the data has certainly shown that there has been an underrepresentation. "

Carol W. Greider

" What I found out on Christmas Day 1984, through biochemical evidence, was that telomeres could be lengthened by the enzyme we called telomerase, which keeps the telomeres from wearing down. After I found that out, I went home and put on Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA,' which was just out, and I danced and danced and danced. "

Carol W. Greider

" Students and postdoctoral fellows largely depend on the support of the public sector to finance the training and research that will make them world-renowned scientists. "

Carol W. Greider

" Science can promote an understanding between people at a really fundamental level. "

Carol W. Greider

" I enjoyed biology in high school, and that brought me to a research lab at U.C. Santa Barbara. I loved doing experiments, and I had fun with them. I realized this kind of problem-solving fit my intellectual style. "

Carol W. Greider

" As a kid, I thought of myself as stupid because I needed remedial help. It was not until much later that I figured out that I was dyslexic and that my trouble with spelling and sounding out words did not mean I was stupid, but early impressions stuck with me and colored my world for a time. "

Carol W. Greider

" RNase H is a specific RNase that will cleave the RNA of a DNA/RNA duplex. "

Carol W. Greider

" One of the lessons I have learned in the different stages of my career is that science is not done alone. It is through talking with others and sharing that progress is made. "

Carol W. Greider

" Federal funding for biomedical sciences plays a critical role in training the next generation of scientists. "

Carol W. Greider

" It takes years to realize the multiple benefits of science; without adequate, sustained funding for research, the careers of many bright, young scientists may come to a screeching halt. "

Carol W. Greider