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22 Nov Intrigue of the Sleeper Cells

In early November, researchers at the Mayo Clinic's anti-aging institute announced a landmark study.      They'd figured out a way to rid the aging body of  “senescent” cells—those that are old and broken-down, no longer able to multiply—and the results were dramatic: The participants in the...

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01 Nov Telomeres Alert The Media

Telomeres are starting to emerge from the labs of molecular biologists and the dreams of visionary entrepreneurs. Two years after a trio of telomere researchers won a Nobel Prize, word is spreading that this once-obscure structure—the protective cap at the ends of our chromosomes—is not...

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