Today I'll point out a great open access paper on the evolution of human telomere dynamics: telomere length, how that length changes over time, and especially how it changes with aging. This makes a good companion piece to another paper from last week that covered the differences in telomere dynamics between mice and humans. This is quite important, since most of the work on this topic involves mouse studies, not human studies. As telomerasegene therapies continue to extend average telomere length and - in mice at least - also extend healthy life span, this is becoming a hot topic in the aging research community.
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