I love looking at the smallest cells and microbes and how they relate to time, timing and, in this case, aging. Fascinating research.
The science of cells that never get old
What makes our bodies age ... our skin wrinkle, our hair turn white, our immune systems weaken? Biologist Elizabeth Blackburn shares a Nobel Prize for her work finding out the answer, with the discovery of telomerase: an enzyme that replenishes the caps at the end of chromosomes, which break down wh...
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