Re: getting older

"perimo" <perimo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote

> So what can be the reason that telomers are getting shorter and shorter ?

STFW.

Telomers are thousands of protective layers on the edges of the DNA strands,
they get 50% less in number with each cell division.

How else would the DNA be protected against outside influence?

(If you know a better way ;-)


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