The more exercise people get, the less their cells appear to age. In a new study in Preventive Medicine, people who exercised ...

Telomere length and polygenic risk scores (PRS) are linked to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) risk, especially in noncarriers of rare genetic variants. The study identified rare damaging variants ...

As we age, our appearance changes, our hair turns gray and wrinkles appear. And we become more susceptible to disease. One reason for this is that our telomeres shorten. These are protective caps at ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm an American writer working in fiction and nonfiction. By 1990, scientists knew that telomeres are repetitive DNA sequences ...

Our genome is organized into chromosomes, which are shaped like little X's. Every time a cell divides, the genome has to be replicated, and there are protective caps called telomeres on the ends of ...

Aging affects everybody, so it’s easy to understand why so much scientific attention is focused on studying it. Scientists in Canada now claim to have found that telomeres play a different role in ...

A recent study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine has suggested that short telomere length may increase the risk of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) even in patients who do not carry rare ...

Large genetic study links telomere-related polygenic risk to distinct idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis subgroups, improving disease prediction.

Shorter telomeres on the ends of white blood cell chromosomes may signal a heightened dementia risk, suggest the results of a large, long-term study by researchers at Hangzhou Normal University, ...

Research shows your DNA may not age as fast while taking this popular vitamin.

Telomeres are the structures that protect the ends of chromosomes. The ability of tumor cells to continue dividing indefinitely, as if they were immortal, depends on telomeres When telomeres are ...

Telomeres are repetitive sequences of DNA that can be found at the ends of chromosomes, where they form a kind of protective cap. Telomeres get shorter every time a cell divides, and they are thought ...