Compound structure at the end of a chromosome

Usage examples of telomere.

Now she is eighty, and a telomere refusenik, a charter member of the genome conservation front.

Art recalled, with no pleasure at all, that the telomere research center was on the fifteenth floor.

Every telomere in every cell would shorten, until the cells reached the Hayflick limit and could no longer give viable daughter cells.

I had everything here that I needed to satisfy the telomere monitoring needs of Seth and his companions.

He had posed a challenging problem, in the central area where my own ego lies: How does one make an efficient device for telomere inspection, without genome scanners or anything else involving microchip technology?

Its telomere should have been completely rebuilt, which meant that the nucleotide sequence ought to repeat about fifteen hundred times.

The telomere was far too short, no more than a few hundred repetitions of the same pattern of the six nucleotide bases.

When the cell reaches its Hayflick limit of fifty divisions, the telomere is down to a nub.

Every time a bit of telomere is lost through cell division, it comes along and replaces it so that the strand never gets shorter.

Instead of adding to the telomere cap, it just sticks there, causing the chromosomes to clump together.

Carmel, medical student, for his superb and indefatigable research in cloning, DNA, telomere work, autopsies and aging.

As long as the antioxidant binds to the DNA telomere sequence, cell death will not occur.

The telomere tabs were one-shot things, right, most people got them in their early twenties.

Likewise, the first gene in chromosome three was preceded by another telomere, the end cap on the leading edge of that chromosome.

Unless we have a way of checking the condition of our telomeres and making the right adjustments, we could be dead in a year of new cancer or premature old age.