Telomeres
in example sentence
OK, now, that's an incredibly hopeful message for us humans to be receiving from pond scum, because it turns out that as we humans age, our
telomeres
do shorten, and remarkably, that shortening is aging us.
More example sentences with word telomeres
That's because it has even been associated with shortened telomeres, the shoelace tip ends of chromosomes that measure a cell's age.
When
telomeres
become too short, a cell can no longer divide and it dies.
The DNA in our cells is packaged within chromosomes, each of which has two protective regions at the extremities called
telomeres.
When
telomeres
become too short, cells stop replicating and die, slowing the body's ability to renew itself.
All example sentences
