A study of nearly 500,000 people has shown that smoking shortens the end fragments of chromosomes in the white blood cells of our immune systems. The length of these end fragments, called telomeres, is an indicator of how ...
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A new study has provided insights into an important biological mechanism that supports survival of aggressive, hard-to-treat cancers, and in the process, has uncovered fascinating new information about how cells divide and ...
Aug 30, 2023
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Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) consists of multiple episodes of partial or complete closure of the upper airway that occur during sleep, leading to breathing cessation lasting more than ten seconds and sometimes even several ...
Aug 23, 2023
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A team of scientists led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has found that an existing cancer drug could be repurposed to target a subset of cancers that currently lack targeted treatment options ...
Jul 10, 2023
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Each time our cells divide, the protective caps that keep our chromosomes from fraying, called telomeres, lose a bit of their DNA. Telomeres shorten steadily as we age, but in certain medical conditions like dyskeratosis ...
Jul 7, 2023
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Short telomeres in midlife are associated with a higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, UConn School of Medicine researchers report in the May 30 issue of Aging Cell.
Jun 28, 2023
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A new research paper titled "Short telomeres in alveolar type II cells associate with lung fibrosis in post COVID-19 patients with cancer" has been published in Aging.
Jun 15, 2023
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Healthy cells can only divide a limited number of times during an organism's lifetime. In contrast, tumor cells are immortal: they proliferate indefinitely and uncontrollably, and this is the defining characteristic of cancer.
May 25, 2023
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In a study of 17 people from five families, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they found that ultra-lengthy DNA endcaps called telomeres fail to provide the longevity presumed for such people. Instead, people with long ...
May 4, 2023
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Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say their 20-year study of more than 200 people with premature aging syndromes caused by abnormally short telomeres, or shortened repetitive DNA sequences at the ends of chromosomes, may ...
Mar 30, 2023
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