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...problem appears to involve telomeres, cufflike bands at the ends of chromosomes that cap the strands like the plastic sleeves at the tips of shoelaces. As animals age, telomeres shorten, causing chromosomes to fray, cells to wink out and the organism as a whole to become frail...
...Princeton beat UVA, and we lost to Princeton," Tomford said. "But you never know--margins seem to shorten at Sprints and it's always competitive...
Eight years ago, scientists discovered that the tips of chromosomes in tissue cells shorten each time the cells replicate--until a point is reached where the cells stop dividing altogether. That point, called the Hayflick limit, comes after about 50 replications, and may be at the heart of the process we call aging...
Though Oriol knew she wanted to be a doctor eventually, her plans upon graduation from Boston University in 1967 did not involve medical school. Because Oriol's father died early in her undergraduate years, she had to shorten her time as a student to be able to pay for her tuition. After finishing college in three years, Oriol confesses, "I was tired and I knew I wouldn't be a good student...
...cleanup at the hotel, dinner, back to the macaroni factory. All night long, The Chief paced, The Chief thought, The Chief would suddenly leap up and march off down the corridor. By dawn The Chief had a plan: he started with a 48-hour drying time and continued to shorten it until it reached the minimum at which macaroni dried satisfactorily. "We ruined a lot of macaroni," reported one of his associates...