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Telomere-Lengthening Procedure Turns Clock Back Years in Human Cells

02-14-2015 • arclein

Telomeres are the caps at the ends of our chromosomes that protect the DNA code of the genome. Linked to aging and disease, they are 8,000 to 10,000 nucleotides long in young people, but this decreases as we age (a nucleotide is an organic molecule t