marchiuse
- Oct 7, 2018
- 1 min
Worse health status with shorter telomere length in COPD
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with shorter telomere length have worse health status, according to a study...
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Miguel A. Munoz-Lorente
- Sep 26, 2018
- 3 min
Telomerase Gene Therapy treatment of age-related diseases and telomere syndromes does not favor canc
Telomeres are protective structures at the ends of chromosomes. They consist of tandem repeats of a DNA sequence, which in all...
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Stanford Medicine
- Aug 28, 2018
- 4 min
Diseased heart muscle cells have abnormally shortened telomeres
Patients with cardiomyopathy have abnormally short telomeres in the cells responsible for heart contraction, Stanford researchers find....
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marchiuse
- Aug 22, 2018
- 4 min
Gene therapy vectors carrying the telomerase gene do not increase the risk of cancer
Gene therapy with telomerase was developed by CNIO in 2012 and has proved effective in mice against infarction, as well as in mouse...
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Patti Harter
- Jul 30, 2018
- 3 min
To save Medicare, spend more to research aging
Promising research could limit the diseases of aging, but it’s not getting enough federal funding. Bernie Sanders and other politicians...
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