{"id":115648,"date":"2020-11-09T07:23:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/tracking-cancers-immortality-factor"},"modified":"2020-11-09T07:23:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:23:54","slug":"tracking-cancers-immortality-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/tracking-cancers-immortality-factor","title":{"rendered":"Tracking cancer\u2019s immortality factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tracking-cancers-immortality-factor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canadian scientists have achieved a first in the study of telomerase, an essential enzyme implicated in aging and cancer.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s edition of the prestigious journal <i>Molecular Cell<\/i>, scientists from Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al used advanced microscopy techniques to see single molecules of telomerase in living <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cells<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A flaw in the replication of chromosomes means that they get shorter with each <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cell+division\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cell division<\/a>. If nothing is done to correct this error, replication stops and cells go into a state called senescence, a hallmark of aging. Normally, telomerase adds extra DNA to the ends of chromosomes to prevent this problem, but as we age our bodies produce fewer of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian scientists have achieved a first in the study of telomerase, an essential enzyme implicated in aging and cancer. In today\u2019s edition of the prestigious journal Molecular Cell, scientists from Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al used advanced microscopy techniques to see single molecules of telomerase in living cells. A flaw in the replication of chromosomes means that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}