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• Telomere extension. “… genetic deficiency that shortens their telomeres, the caps that protect the ends of each chromosome …”

  
  Biotech — Authority: 131
  According to a Release dated October 19, from The Company of Biologists, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom: ‘The recovery of telomere lengthening in mtert mice is presented in the Research Article titled ‘Telomerase reverse transcriptase-dependent telomere equilibration mitigates tissue dysfunction in mTert ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Nobel Prize that Matters

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 640
  The important Nobel Prize news last week was the recognition of three American scientists for their role in the discovery of telomerase. More attention was garnered by the rather puzzling Peace Prize award, but that has become routine. The five Norwegians who pick the Peace Prize winners are specifically selected, it ...
  4 weeks ago

• Pets May Benefit From Nobel Prize Aging Process Discovery

  
  Dr. Carols Naturally Healthy Pets Blog — Authority: 118
  The Nobel prize for medicine was awarded to three American scientists for their discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase, that play a key role in the aging process as well as cancer, in people and pets.The three American Laureates were awarded the Nobel Prize of $1.42 million ...
  4 weeks ago

• AAUW Member Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

  
  AAUW Dialog — Authority: 494
  Sitting at my desk here at AAUW, I can see a framed photograph and handwritten thank-you note from Marie Curie, dated 1920, in which she expresses her gratitude for AAUW’s support of her groundbreaking research on radium. It serves as an inspiration and a reminder as to why it is so important to continue to [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Science advances in a post-Bush era

  
  The Daily Clarity — Authority: 128
  It is surprising the long shadow that an American President spreads over the world, even one now retired from the office. George W Bush was a major inhibitor of scientific research and advancement. His strict fundamentalist belief set prohibited him from viewing many issues in their broader humanistic framework and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Telomerase and Wnt signaling

  
  Science and Reason — Authority: 103
  Now that research into telomeres and telomerase has (finally) garnered a Nobel Prize , its a good time to write about recent research on the subject. Seminal work on telomeres by Elizabeth Blackburn, one of the Nobel winners, was published way back in 1978, and active studies have been going on ever since. So ...
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