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Mar 9, 2024

Beyond Telomerase: The Quest for Chromosome Immortality

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Recent research challenges the long-standing understanding of the end-replication problem in DNA, revealing two distinct issues rather than one.

Half a century ago, scientists Jim Watson and Alexey Olovnikov independently realized that there was a problem with how our DNA gets copied. A quirk of linear DNA replication dictated that telomeres that protect the ends of chromosomes should have been growing shorter with each round of replication, a phenomenon known as the end-replication problem.

Telomerase: A Solution Emerges

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