Sentences with phrase «telomere biology»
Lundblad, 64, is a cell biologist who made her name in telomere biology and has been at the institute since 2003.
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It also means that the role of telomere biology at a very early step of cancer development is vastly underappreciated,» said senior author Dirk Hockemeyer, a UC Berkeley assistant professor of molecular and cell biology.
Lundblad's success contributes to telomere biology's reputation for claiming a large number of women investigators.
But whichever set of heels she slips on, Lundblad is clearly making big tracks in telomere biology.
«Telomere biology is one of the few fields that doesn't show a gender bias — and so, by frame of reference, it seems like it's dominated by women,» she says.
Not exact matches
«No other species we've looked at shows lengthening telomeres,» says Carol Vleck, an associate professor in the university's department of ecology, evolution, and organismal biology and leader of the team.
James Christiansen, professor of biology at Drake University in DesMoines, is studying how telomeres, the simple, non-genetic DNAsequences that sheathe the ends of chromosomes, function in reptiles.Each time a healthy human cell divides, it loses a little bit of thetelomere, until the strands are too short to protect the chromosomes.At that point the DNA in a cell begins to break down, which triggerssenescence and death.
reproductive aging, oocyte dysfunction, telomeres, meiosis, stem cells, oocytes, genome integrity, stem cell biology
«At the beginning of life, our cells have very long telomeres, which grow shorter from then on,» says Daniel Gottschling, PhD, associate professor of molecular genetics and cell biology, one of two authors on the Science paper.
Elucidating the role of telomerase and telomeres in adult stem cell biology and in nuclear reprogramming of differentiated cells to iPS cells.
Flashback to freshman biology: Telomeres are attached to the end of chromosomes.