The Scientist Staff | Jan 19, 1997 | 2 min read
Edited by: Karen Young Kreeger C.M. Counter, J. Gupta, C.B. Harley, B. Leber, S. Bacchetti, "Telomerase activity in normal leukocytes and hematologic malignancies," Blood, 85:2315-20, 1995. (Cited in nearly 50 publications as of December 1996) Comments by Silvia Bacchetti, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. TALLYING TELOMERASE: McMaster University’s Silvia Bacchetti and Chris Counter were the first to detect telomerase in noncancerous somatic cells. The study of telomeres