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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patients with severe COVID-19 disease have significantly shorter telomeres, according to a new study. Researchers postulate that telomere shortening as a consequence of the viral infection impedes ...

Profound changes in the three-dimensional (3D) nuclear organization of telomeres are the hallmark of the transition from mononuclear H cells to multinuclear RS cells in EBV-negative Hodgkin cell lines ...