10/23/2025
“"My compensatory skills played a role in my success as a scientist because one has to intuit many different things that are going on at the same time and apply those to a particular problem to not just concentrate on one of them, but to bring many in laterally.”
Rather than seeking to eliminate the non-typicals, perhaps the case of Carol Grieder is a reminder that we should embrace those who see things a bit differently.”
From grade-school “remedial” teaching to the Nobel stage, molecular biologist Carol W. Greider turned obstacles into fuel for discovery. Her groundbreaking discovery of a crucial enzyme, telomerase, reshaped our understanding of aging, cancer, and cellular immortality. Greider’s story is a reb...