On the flipside, if telomeres are too long, it can also spell trouble because cancer cells require long telomeres to become longer lived, ‘immortal,’” says Mia Levine, associate professor of biology ...

A new computational tool infers changes occurring at the ends of the chromosomes housing our DNA. It does so by detecting ...

A new AI tool analyzes biopsy images to estimate telomere length, a key marker of aging. It detects structural patterns in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm an American writer working in fiction and nonfiction. By 1990, scientists knew that telomeres are repetitive DNA sequences ...

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 ...

Our genome is organized into chromosomes, which are shaped like little X's. Every time a cell divides, the genome has to be replicated, and there are protective caps called telomeres on the ends of ...

Shorter telomeres on the ends of white blood cell chromosomes may signal a heightened dementia risk, suggest the results of a large, long-term study by researchers at Hangzhou Normal University, ...

A study published in Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology reveals a surprising link between cellular aging markers and ...

Telomeres are the structures that protect the ends of chromosomes. The ability of tumor cells to continue dividing indefinitely, as if they were immortal, depends on telomeres When telomeres are ...

Even if you think you get enough sleep each night, your fitness tracker may be telling a very different story. In the light of day, the data these wearable trackers collect may illuminate just how ...

Bret Weinstein was interviewed on the Joe Rogan show and Bret claimed that the breeding protocols and telomeres of lab mice are broken. Bret claims that this problem is so severe that it calls into ...