Scientists at Johns Hopkins say they have found that people born with abnormally short chromosome endcaps, or telomeres, have immune system cells that age and die prematurely. Their short-lived immune ...

Five-year NIH-funded study will examine how early-life factors such as growth patterns and exposure to air pollution affect ...

Elderly people with short chromosome caps, or telomeres, are more likely to have difficulty performing daily activities such as carrying groceries, climbing stairs and walking, finds a new study of ...

Patients with moderate-to-severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who have short telomeres, a biomarker of aging, are more likely to have a worse quality of life and have a higher risk of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Short telomeres were strongly associated with prevalent interstitial lung disease among patients with rheumatoid ...

New data suggest venetoclax may offset the negative prognostic impact of short telomeres in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). A pair of studies examining the role of venetoclax ...

Functional telomeres protect chromosome ends and play essential roles in stem cell maintenance and differentiation. Over the past decade, telomeres have attracted increasing attention due to their ...

Short telomeres might lead to increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease, but observational analyses have been inconclusive and potentially confounded by the strong association of both telomere length and ...

Contrary to current opinion, genomic instability is not the origin of cancer in patients with short telomere syndromes (STSs), researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine reported ...

In the past few decades, it was discovered that the rate at which we age is strongly influenced by biochemical processes that, at least in animal models, can be controlled in the laboratory. Telomere ...