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Want to Live Longer? Keep Your Chromosomes Long and Supple

February 05, 2013

Who wouldn't like to live longer, as long as it doesn't require getting old? Anti-aging scientists have some ideas about how to lengthen your prime, and strangely enough it may have to do with lengthening the "caps" on the ends of your chromosomes.

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