This had such an impact on me, I still remember it: I was sitting at my desk almost 20 years ago. I like to stay abreast of non-medical scientific literature. So I picked up my issue of Scientific American and something jumped off the page at me.
Elizabeth Blackburn had made a truly revolutionary discovery. I’ll never forget it.
When I read that she’d found a solution to aging already in our genes, I took out a piece of paper and wrote down something that I still have today. It says, “This will change the world as we know it.”
Now, finally, it seems other people think so, too. Elizabeth Blackburn won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Why all the fuss? Let me explain why this discovery is so powerful…
Dr. Sears Predicts Nobel Prize Winner… One Year Before it Happened
I’m no clairvoyant, but this is one time I predicted something and actually got it right. And I have it recorded.
During my telomere conference I said Elizabeth Blackburn should win a Nobel Prize for her discovery of the telomere, the “caps” at the end of chromosomes. That was October of last year…