Telomeres Are the New Cholesterol. Now What? - podcast episode cover

Telomeres Are the New Cholesterol. Now What?

Mar 30, 201814 min
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“I am a bit concerned about your telomeres,” the doctor told me, evenly. Telomeres are the caplike segments at the ends of the strands of DNA that make up your chromosomes—think of the plastic aglets at the ends of a shoelace—and some of mine, he could see, were not as long as he would have liked them to be.

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