# The science of cells that never get old

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2017
- Speaker: Elizabeth Blackburn
- Year: 2017
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Medicine and health
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_blackburn_the_science_of_cells_that_never_get_old)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [The science of cells that never get old](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/elizabeth_blackburn_the_science_of_cells_that_never_get_old/42326e1790d9), 19 min (TED's player)