telomere

• Geneticist Peter N. Good-fellow of Cambridge University and his colleagues have moved a telomere--the structure at a chromosome's tip that keeps it from unraveling--from the end of the long arm of an X chromosome toward the center of the arm. —  Omni: February 1994
• After the restriction point, the cell can be arrested in response to stress stimuli, such as telomere depletion, and a decision between senescence and apoptosis occurs. quiescence CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
• The new study of fruit flies by University of Utah biologists is the first to show in animals that losing just one telomere - end of a chromosome - can lead to many abnormalities in a cell's chromosomes, which are strands of DNA that carry genes. —  India eNews
• The new study of fruit flies is the first to show in animals that losing just one telomere - the end of a chromosome - can lead to many abnormalities in a cell's chromosomes, which are strands of DNA that carry genes. —  Health News from Medical News Today
• A telomere is made of short sequences of DNA repeated hundreds of times. —  Health News from Medical News Today

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