The key to healthy longer life: Telomere
Scientists knew a lot about telomeres, and they continue to find new evidence about the role telomeres play in the aging process on a cellular level. The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine was awarded jointly to three genetic researchers Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak “for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase”.
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