Age Quote by Dean Ornish

Telomeres are the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes in cells. Chromosomes carry the genetic information. Telomeres are buffers. They are like the…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

This enzyme, called telomerase, slows the rate at which telomeres degrade, and research indicates that healthy people with longer telomeres have less risk of…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

“They also knew that there was a string of DNA at the end of each chromosome called a telomere, which shortened a tiny bit…

— Rebecca Skloot

We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a variety of diseases that are becoming very common,…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

It is unlikely that changes in telomeres are influencing the lifespan of the worm. That is because telomeres only shorten when cells divide. Most…

— Cynthia Kenyon

When you bring telomerase RNA levels down by using a mechanism that targets the RNA for destruction, the cells which were running on very…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

We think there are lifestyle factors that boost telomerase naturally.

— Elizabeth Blackburn

Only 20 percent of our longevity is genetically determined. The rest is what we do, how we live our lives and increasingly the molecules…

— David Andrew Sinclair

The goal is to learn more about telomere length and other markers of ageing, how best to measure these markers, how they are related…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

Once DNA acquires the ability to persist forever, the carriers become disposable. Essentially, our bodies are designed to last long enough to reproduce.

— S. Jay Olshansky

So aging is really just the way we deteriorate over time. Lifespan on the other hand is how long we live. We typically refer…

— David Andrew Sinclair

Life is too short because we die.

— Christopher Locke