
SpaceX’s Dragon CRS-7 exploded 4 days ago
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

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

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

In long-awaited and landmark study published yesterday in Genetics, Lapham and 28 other authors collaborated to report telomere length in a cohort of Kaiser patients who gave saliva samples.

This article is discussing trying to call aging a disease so that people can apply to the FDA for approval of drugs to treat it. This is not a great idea, I think.
I don’t believe aging could be considered a disease because it isn’t a discrete condition

Children who are ‘acting out’ have shorter telomeres