Salk institute researcher, Jan Karisider shows that cancer cells can be induced into cell crisis and death not just slowly by telomere erosion but immediately via the p53 “watchman of the genome”
So we suspected that chronic CMV infection ages us but we only conprehended that the immune system burns out fighting it. Until this paper, we didn’t realize that it also steals the healthy gene transciption factors that the host cell needs to stabilize its telomers. It’s a double whammy.
The Telomeres investigation collects crew member blood samples to determine how telomeres and telomerase are affected by space travel.” – The SpaceX CRS-7 mission overview
cells from prostate cancer patients with short telomeres and hypervariable lengths were 14X more likely to die of their disease
Greece will default, exit the Eurozone, and then engineer a bail-in to create a new national currency
They concluded that for whites, poverty was associated with big differences in telemeres versus the wealthier whites. For blacks, there was no effect of poverty upon telomeres, and for Mexicans, poverty was associated with longer telomeres
