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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An enzyme that is found in the telomeres of chromosomes in germ cells, stem cells, and most cancer cells and that preserves the length of telomeres across cell divisions.
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- noun biochemistry, genetics An
enzyme ineukaryotic cells that adds a specificsequence ofDNA to thetelomeres ofchromosomes after theydivide ; gives the chromosomes stability over time.
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- noun an enzyme in eukaryotic cells that can add telomeres to the ends of chromosomes after they divide
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I was working with an enzyme called telomerase, which is found only in cancer cells.
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The researchers will focus on an enzyme called telomerase, which is believed to play a key role in enabling cells to renew themselves, and which in adult hearts is found mainly in the specialised cardiac progenitor cells.
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By providing, with its RNA, a template for DNA synthesis, telomerase is able to build a platform onto the end of the molecule from which other DNA-synthesizing enzymes can then operate.
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Speed Read 2009
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Combining both protein and RNA components, telomerase is a reverse transcriptase which adds telomere DNA to the ends of molecules using an RNA template.
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Speed Read 2009
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We know that telomerase is the enzyme that is needed to put the repeats on.
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Specifically, an analysis of meditators 'white blood cells showed a 30 percent increase in an enzyme called telomerase, a chemical essential to the long-term health of the body's chromosomes and cells.
Wray Herbert: New Meditation Research: Putting the 'Om' in 'Chromosome' Wray Herbert 2010
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Moreover, when fighting infections, T-cells can turn on an enzyme called telomerase, which can prevent the telomeres from shortening....
Archive 2008-11-01 GreenFertility 2008
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Moreover, when fighting infections, T-cells can turn on an enzyme called telomerase, which can prevent the telomeres from shortening....
Astragalus Root Can Prevent Telomere Shortening GreenFertility 2008
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The mice involved in the study were given an enzyme called telomerase, 4-OHT, to reactivate the telomeres in the body.
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GV1001, made by South Korean pharmaceutical company KAEL GemVax, contains a fragment of an enzyme called telomerase, which is normally found in human embryos and which cancer cells use to divide unchecked.
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