Older fathers confer longer telomeres In humans, the older your father was when he donated sperm, the longer the telomeres you tend to have Read More Ed Park, MD 06/17/2018 No Comments
What is the role of transcription error in aging? If we assume 3 billion base pairs, 1/100,000 transcription errors, but a high rate of intra-transcriptional proofreading, we get that figure down to about 0.3 mutations (wrong letter substitution) per cell division. Read More Ed Park, MD 01/07/2016 1 Comment