Researchers at Washington State University (WSU) report that they have created genetically-engineered mice that could help accelerate anti-aging research. “This is the first mouse model with truly ...

Scientists have long tried to unlock the secrets to helping people live longer at the cellular level, where aging occurs because of the gradual shortening of protective caps called telomeres at the ...

Scientists from Mass General Brigham explored the associations between telomere length—which decreases as a person ages or is exposed to unhealthy environments—and the risk for age-related brain ...

Much the way the caps on the ends of a shoelace prevent it from fraying, telomeres - regions of repetitive DNA sequences and a protein structure - protect the tips of chromosomes from damage. Every ...

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Cells are not immortal, and that is a good thing. After a certain number of divisions, many human cells stop multiplying for good. They enter a state called replicative senescence, where growth ceases ...

The more exercise people get, the less their cells appear to age. In a new study in Preventive Medicine, people who exercised the most had biological aging markers that appeared nine years younger ...

As Eisenberg and Kuzawa (2013) put it (p. 2): “Thus, the lineages of men with the ability to extend sperm telomere lengths with age and to transmit these modified telomeres to offspring might have ...