After a finite number of divisions, cells simply give up. As each round of replication trims their telomeres—the protective ...

Aging affects everybody, so it’s easy to understand why so much scientific attention is focused on studying it. Scientists in Canada now claim to have found that telomeres play a different role in ...

As people age, caps called telomeres on the ends of their chromosomes shrink. The observation has led some scientists to argue the shortening is... Healthful Living May Lengthen Telomeres And ...

These end-points are often compared to the plastic protective covers on the tips of shoelaces. Much biological research overlooked the lowly telomere, preferring to focus on the chromosome as a whole.

University of North Carolina (UNC) researchers Taghreed Al-Turki, PhD, and Jack Griffith, PhD, have made the discovery that the telomeres on the ends of chromosomes contain genetic information that ...

When I last wrote about the research I did on aging and exercise (Blog #4, March 23, 2020), I focused on one of the major ways biologists can tell where a person is in the aging process: the ...

After a finite number of divisions, cells simply give up. As each round of replication trims their telomeres-the protective ...

Scientists have found the sweet spot of drinking coffee daily that could lengthen the life span of people with major mental ...

Drinking three to four cups of coffee a day is associated with longer telomeres in people with severe mental illness — ...