Anti-Aging Pill Targets Telomeres at Ends of Chromosomes

Monday, August 17, 2009 - 13:14 in Mathematics & Economics

Peter Pan stayed forever young in Neverland. In real life, some scientists are looking at telomeres, or regions of repetitive DNA at the ends of our chromosomes, to try to arrive at something like a real version of this story. [More]

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