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How Long Will You Live?

25-Nov-2015

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Great video introduction to one of the causes of aging – telemere length v cancer inducing telemerase.

We age at the macroscopic level because our cells are aging at a microscopic level.

Human cells Only divide a finite number of times (50 on average).

Accumulation of these senescence cells that lead to aging.

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Fiona Ginty

Biosciences Technology Manager & Principal Investigator at GE Global Research.

GE Research

Research and development division of General Electric.

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Telomeres