Tag: Telomerase

Treating middle-aged people for six months with a supplement combination that included astragalus, a plant used in traditional Chinese medicine, positively impacted their telomeres [1]. Preventing the shortening Telomeres are like shoelace aglets, forming protective caps at the ends of DNA strands. They are made of a specific repetitive sequence of nucleotides. They prevent chromosome...

Scientists have identified a small molecule that upregulates telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) in multiple tissues, improving health and cognition in old mice. Telomere attrition and health Why We Age: Telomere AttritionTelomeres are DNA regions located at the ends of a chromosome. Their normal length is 8-10 thousand base pairs, yet they consist of repetitions of...

Since its launch in 2016, Rejuvenation Technologies, located in Mountain View, California, has been developing a therapeutic to restore telomeres in humans. The company has been in stealth mode for a number of years, but there is finally some news! Reversing a decade of telomere loss in one treatment Rejuvenation Technologies has created a method...

Researchers publishing in Biogerontology have tested multiple biomarkers in an effort to use them as proxies for aging, and some of their findings were surprising. A simple study with direct measurements Unlike other association studies that are used to evaluate biomarkers of aging, this study did not use data from a pre-existing biobank or related...

Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, a veteran geroscientist, and a serial entrepreneur, George Church hardly needs an introduction. While we are always happy to discuss the present and future of geroscience with him, this interview focuses on the two gene therapy papers that he recently co-authored, which drew a lot of attention due...

In Nature Cell Biology, a team of researchers has presented a current review of telomeres and how they relate to aging, reflecting modern research into a decades-old topic. Why We Age: Telomere AttritionTelomeres are DNA regions located at the ends of a chromosome. Their normal length is 8-10 thousand base pairs, yet they consist of...