A team of Sydney scientists has made a groundbreaking discovery in telomere biology, with implications for conditions ranging from cancer to ageing and heart disease. The research project was led by ...

We are entering into an exciting era of genomics where truly complete, high-quality assemblies of human chromosomes are available end-to-end, or from ‘telomere-to-telomere’ (T2T). Recently, the ...

Scientists now know what an enzyme important in aging and cancer really looks like. A new study, published Wednesday in Nature, describes the structure of telomerase in more detail than has ever been ...

Telomerase is essential for continuous cellular proliferation. Substantial insights have come from studies of budding yeast telomerase, which consists of a catalytic core in association with two ...

Your DNA is located within the nuclei of your cells, where it’s bundled within structures called chromosomes. Each chromosome carries specific genetic information in the form of genes. As the cells in ...

Telomere shortening — a sign of cellular aging — is associated with multiple changes in the brain associated with dementia, whereas longer telomeres associate with better brain health and lower risk ...

Transposons are critical drivers of bacterial evolution that have been studied for many decades and have been the subject of Nobel Prize winning research. Now, researchers from Cornell University have ...

The twitch of a butterfly’s wing can initiate a cascade of increasingly substantial events, culminating in changes that are both profound and far-reaching. That’s the gist of any butterfly effect, ...