Sentences with phrase «measure cellular age»
«Scientists discover new method for measuring cellular age: Cells begin losing important DNA marks in utero.»
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We also identified a «meditation effect» within the regular meditator group, characterized by a distinct network of genes with cellular functions that may be relevant to healthy aging, and this network was associated with increased expression of a number of telomere maintenance pathway genes and an increase in measured telomerase enzymatic activity.
The ability to measure the degree of cellular senescence is important in understanding the biological processes regulating cell aging and immortalization.
This lack of understanding is contributed by the fact that cellular aging is a complex phenotype to measure and comprehensive studies on aging require the application of novel experimental approaches and technological platforms.
Instead, cellular aging has long been measured using telomeres — also known as the protein endcaps on our chromosomes.