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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Spain Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Spain Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Spain Leader Award
  • 2006 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Maria A. Blasco is affiliated with the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology, Physiology, Aging, Oncology, and Cancer Research. Their work extensively covers topics related to telomeres, telomerase, and senescence, as well as genetics, aging, and longevity in model organisms.

The scientist has contributed to numerous publications across various academic journals. The venues in which they have frequently published include Aging, Nature Communications, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Science Advances, and Cell Death and Differentiation.

Some of their recent published papers are:

  • Hallmarks of aging: An expanding universe, 2023, Cell
  • Shorter telomere lengths in patients with severe COVID-19 disease, 2021, Aging
  • Small extracellular vesicles from young adipose-derived stem cells prevent frailty, improve health span, and decrease epigenetic age in old mice, 2022, Science Advances
  • Splicing machinery dysregulation drives glioblastoma development/aggressiveness: oncogenic role of SRSF3, 2020, Brain
  • The mTOR pathway is necessary for survival of mice with short telomeres, 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Maria A. Blasco include:

  • Paula Martínez
  • Raúl Sánchez-Vazquez
  • Rosa Serrano
  • Ana Guío-Carrión
  • Sarita Saraswati

The scientist's research addresses key topics such as:

  • Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
  • Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
  • MicroRNA in disease regulation
  • Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

Maria A. Blasco has been recognized through awards including membership in the Academia Europaea in 2006 and membership in the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • The Hallmarks of Aging

    Carlos López-Otín;Maria A. Blasco;Linda Partridge;Manuel Serrano

  • Telomere Shortening and Tumor Formation by Mouse Cells Lacking Telomerase RNA

    María A. Blasco;María A. Blasco;Han Woong Lee;M. Prakash Hande;Enrique Samper

  • Telomeres and human disease: ageing, cancer and beyond

    Maria A. Blasco

  • Cellular Senescence in Cancer and Aging

    Manuel Collado;Maria A. Blasco;Manuel Serrano

  • Longevity, stress response, and cancer in aging telomerase-deficient mice.

    Karl Lenhard Rudolph;Sandy Chang;Han Woong Lee;Maria Blasco

  • Essential role of mouse telomerase in highly proliferative organs

    Han Woong Lee;Han Woong Lee;Maria A. Blasco;Maria A. Blasco;Geoffrey J. Gottlieb;James W. Horner

  • Personal Omics Profiling Reveals Dynamic Molecular and Medical Phenotypes

    Rui Chen;George I. Mias;Jennifer Li-Pook-Than;Lihua Jiang

  • The common biology of cancer and ageing

    Toren Finkel;Manuel Serrano;Maria A. Blasco

  • A p53-mediated DNA damage response limits reprogramming to ensure iPS cell genomic integrity

    Rosa M. Marión;Katerina Strati;Han Li;Matilde Murga

  • The Ink4/Arf locus is a barrier for iPS cell reprogramming

    Han Li;Manuel Collado;Aranzazu Villasante;Katerina Strati

  • Developmentally regulated transcription of mammalian telomeres by DNA-dependent RNA polymerase II

    Stefan Schoeftner;Maria A. Blasco

  • Telomere length, stem cells and aging

    Maria A Blasco

  • The epigenetic regulation of mammalian telomeres

    María A. Blasco

  • Secondary structure of vertebrate telomerase RNA.

    Jiunn Liang Chen;Maria A. Blasco;Carol W. Greider

  • Isolation and in vitro expansion of human colonic stem cells

    Peter Jung;Toshiro Sato;Toshiro Sato;Anna Merlos-Suárez;Francisco M Barriga

  • DNA methyltransferases control telomere length and telomere recombination in mammalian cells.

    Susana Gonzalo;Isabel Jaco;Mario F. Fraga;Taiping Chen

  • Epigenetic regulation of telomere length in mammalian cells by the Suv39h1 and Suv39h2 histone methyltransferases.

    Marta García-Cao;Roderick O'Sullivan;Antoine H F M Peters;Thomas Jenuwein

  • Telomeric and extra-telomeric roles for telomerase and the telomere-binding proteins

    Paula Martínez;María A. Blasco

  • Hepatocyte telomere shortening and senescence are general markers of human liver cirrhosis

    Stefanie U. Wiemann;Ande Satyanarayana;Martina Tsahuridu;Hans L. Tillmann

  • "Super p53" mice exhibit enhanced DNA damage response, are tumor resistant and age normally.

    Isabel García-Cao;Marta García-Cao;Juan Martín-Caballero;Luis M. Criado

Frequent Co-Authors

Juana M. Flores
Juana M. Flores Complutense University of Madrid
Manuel Serrano
Manuel Serrano Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Peter Klatt
Peter Klatt Spanish National Research Council
David L. Keefe
David L. Keefe Brown University
Margarita Salas
Margarita Salas Spanish National Research Council
Luis Blanco
Luis Blanco Spanish National Research Council
Lin Liu
Lin Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Carol W. Greider
Carol W. Greider University of California, Santa Cruz
Fatima Bosch
Fatima Bosch Autonomous University of Barcelona
Gonzalo Gómez-López
Gonzalo Gómez-López Universidade de Vigo

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