Study shows how telomerase can run amok, deleteriously capping damaged DNA, were it not for a first responder to DNA damage. The natural ends of chromosomes appear alarmingly like broken DNA, much as ...

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Researchers at Arizona State University’s (ASU) School of Molecular Sciences and the Biodesign Institute’s Center for the Mechanism of Evolution have discovered an unprecedented pathway producing ...

Telomerase activation or the cancer-specific, telomerase-independent alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) mechanism are two telomere maintenance mechanisms in human cells. Most prostate cancers ...

Sept. 3 -- MONDAY, Sept. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have revealed the structure of the active region of telomerase, an enzyme involved in both cancer and aging. Telomerase works by adding ...

Our DNA is organized into chromosomes, and the ends of chromosomes are protected with caps called telomeres; when cells divide, they lose a very small amount of DNA from those ends. Short telomeres ...

Although most of us accept aging as a natural part of life, it might not have to be. Researchers at UC Berkeley have now mapped out the structure of telomerase – an enzyme known to play a key role in ...

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have published the first detailed image of the molecular structure of human telomerase, the enzyme that lengthens chromosomes and extends the ...

Negative results and findings in science are perhaps less newsworthy, but they are no less important. Particularly when, as in this case, they demonstrate that a possible new therapeutic pathway ...

Science has identified in the plant kingdom the “missing link” of cellular immortality between human and single-celled animals, according to a new study led by scientists from Arizona State University ...

(PHILADELPHIA) – Inappropriate activation of a single enzyme, telomerase, is associated with the uncontrollable proliferation of cells seen in as many as 90 percent of all of human cancers. Since the ...