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Harvard Medical School (US) researchers successfully halt telomere shortening to prompt a reversal of age-related organ atrophy, in a laboratory model of aging. Telomeres are protective endcaps of DNA, which shorten each time cells divide. Telomere shortening has been linked to the aging process. Ronald A. DePinho, from Harvard Medical School (Massachusetts, USA), and colleagues …
UCSF (US) researchers find that omega-3 fatty acids, compounds present in the oils of fatty fish, may slow telomere shortening, a key marker of biological age. Telomeres are the endcaps on chromosomes, and the number of times that telomeres divide during cellular replication has been linked to cellular aging and death. Ramin Farzaneh-Far, from the …