Known as telomeres, these protective caps of DNA shrink ... can help preserve telomere length in older adults. Their findings draw from the VITAL study — a massive randomized trial tracking ...

My telomeres are shrinking right now ... of the flourishing fields of retail genomics and personalized medicine, drawing on tools built for the Human Genome Project, where companies like Mountain ...

Imagine your DNA as a set of shoelaces. Telomeres are like the plastic tips at the ends of those shoelaces, preventing them from fraying and unraveling. Structurally, telomeres are repetitive ...

Dr. Patnaik established the Telomere Biology Disorders Clinic at the Rochester, Minnesota, campus in 2017. The clinic is multidisciplinary in nature, drawing expertise from hematologists ...

Longer leukocyte telomeres are linked to a lower risk for stroke, dementia, and late-life depression (LLD), early research suggests. The findings also indicated that adopting a healthy lifestyle ...

While many attribute this to genetics, lifestyle, or even sheer luck, science is increasingly turning its focus to telomeres, ...

Telomeres are one of the keys to aging. We’ve known this for decades, and the scientists who first figured it out won the Nobel Prize in 2009. (One of them was my former colleague at Johns ...

The longer a person’s telomeres, researchers found, the greater the risk of cancer and other disorders, challenging a popular hypothesis about the chromosomal roots of vitality. By Gina Kolata ...