New Umea study on telomeres and ageing link
Saturday, February 14, 2009 - 04:14
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at Umea University in Sweden have shown that the shortening of telomeres in pace with increasing age, as demonstrated in population studies, does not apply at the individual level. The attrition rate seems to mainly depend on the original length of the telomeres, which indicates that some individuals can even have longer telomeres over time...