БиоПро Выбор потребителя 2018 #01

Telomere theory of ageing and logevity receives additional support

In an article published in Nature Communications journal on October 17th, researchers from the Spanish National Cancer Centre (CINO) presented findings which support the theory of telomeres as the indicators of biological age.

Telomere is a repeated sequence of meaningless “information”.

It doesn’t carry anything that may influence the chromosomal development but it protects the chromosome, where the valuable information is actually stored from corruption, every time a chromosome is replicated.

With every replication, telomeres gets shorter and shorter and it has also been observed that elderly people have the shortest telomeres in population.

Researchers from CINO have found that by breeding mice with hyper-long (much longer than in usual population) telomeres, they were able to extend their lifespan by 12% and significantly decrease instances of cancer.

With regards to the grand scale of things, findings don’t change much, however, if they will be replicated, perhaps we’ll see even more movement towards genetic editing and extension of longevity through genetic manipulation.