The Spanish National Cancer Research Centre
- Oct 20, 2019
- 5 min
Hyper-Long Telomeres Give Non-Genetically Modified Mice Longer, Healthier Lives
Images of fat, liver, and skin of adult mice with normal or hyper-long telomeres. In blue, nuclei; in red, telomeres. Telomeres of adult...
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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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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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marchiuse
- Feb 3, 2018
- 4 min
CNIO (Spanish National Cancer Research Centre) researchers cure lung fibrosis in mice with a gene th
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a potentially lethal disease associated with the presence of critically short telomeres, currently...
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