Elizabeth H. Blackburn

EAST JORDAN -- Matt Hamilton's Shoe Club at East Jordan Middle School is dedicated to helping students learn to set goals and a mission for their lives. Hamilton, a history teacher at the school, has collected shoes from people who excel at what they do...

"Dream Big" is the first thing one sees upon entering East Jordan Middle School teacher Matt Hamilton's classroom, along with the shelves lining the room with hundreds of shoes on them. Hamilton's Shoe Club is dedicated to helping middle school students...

Three U.S. scientists who discovered key aspects of how cells and animals age and how cancer cells become immortal have won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Elizabeth Blackburn of UC San Francisco, Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins...

The Nobel Prizes take people from the forefront of their particular fields into the public eye. The intentions are good, a recognition of outstanding merit and achievement, of contribution to humanity. And it is humanity's nature to be curious about......

by Mark Silva They've already had the lecture on "Telomeres and Telomerase: The Means to the End,'' by Elizabeth Blackburn, one of the Nobel Prize winners in medicine. And they've already heard the lecture on "Decoding the Genetic Message,'' by......

One of the three American scientists sharing this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is a San Diego native, and another is a professor at the University of Calfornia. Carol W. Greider, who works at the Johns Hopkins University School of...