The length of telomeres that protect the ends of our chromosomes should be tightly regulated. Those that are too long predispose to cancer, and those that are too short lose their protective ability, ...

Scientists have unveiled part of the protein complex that protects telomeres—the ends of our chromosomes. Telomeres are the protective structures at the end of chromosomes and are essential for the ...

Lausanne, Switzerland, October 4, 2007 – A group working at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC) in collaboration with the University of Pavia has discovered that telomeres, ...

Scientists at The Wistar Institute have unveiled part of the protein complex that protects telomeres - the ends of our chromosomes. The study, published online in Nature Communications, explains how a ...

New preclinical study finds boosting NAD+ with nicotinamide riboside alleviated telomere damage, providing protective effect to DNA strands “Telomere attrition is recognized as one of the nine ...

Telomeres function like the plastic tips on shoelaces, binding together the two interwoven strands of DNA that make up the chromosome. Her work has implications for cancer, aging and several genetic ...

Our DNA is compacted and arranged into chromosomes, most of which are shaped like X’s. The ends of the chromosomes arms are ...

Using genetically engineered mice, scientists from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have found that events associated with losing the function of telomeres, the repetitive ends of ...

Lausanne, Switzerland, October 4, 2007 – The group from Prof. Joachim Lingner working at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC), in collaboration with the University of Pavia ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ChromaDex Corp. (NASDAQ:CDXC) today highlighted a new study published in The European Molecular Biology Organization Journal looking at the effect of nicotinamide ...