How to Use telomere in a Sentence

telomere

noun
  • When a cell's telomeres become too short, the cell can no longer thrive.
    — Lauren O'Connor, Ms, Health, 29 July 2024
  • The first is at each of their two ends, where there's a structure called a telomere.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Aug. 2018
  • When the telomeres get very short, the cells stop dividing and die.
    — Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
  • The problem is that when our telomeres run out, our cells can’t replicate any more.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Each time a cell divides to drive growth and repair, its telomeres shorten.
    — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2020
  • It was noted, too, that the difference wasn’t just about telomere length.
    — New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The telomeres get a little bit longer even within just a couple of days of being in space.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, STAT, 5 July 2024
  • But the good news is that damage done to telomeres as a result of chronic stress can be reversed.
    — Renée Onque, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Every time a cell divides, the telomere shortens.
    — Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 26 Sep. 2025
  • In other words, running for half an hour five times a week will keep those all-important telomeres long.
    — Jeanne Ballion, Vogue, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The only thing protecting our genes are the endcaps, called telomeres.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2018
  • If both parents had similar telomere lengths, telomeres stayed the same.
    — New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The proteomic aging clock tends to show lower values when telomeres are longer.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
  • When telomeres reach a certain length, cells no longer divide and eventually die.
    — Anne-Marie Guarnieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Eventually, when the telomeres become too short, that signals the cell to die.
    — Alice Park, Time, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Eight weeks is too brief to fully capture biological changes such as telomere growth.
    — New Atlas, 22 Oct. 2025
  • There are dietary interventions that can help keep our telomeres as long as possible.
    — Sheah Rarback, miamiherald, 5 Mar. 2018
  • These telomeres are a string of DNA proteins that rest at the end of a chromosome.
    — Dr. Manny Alvarez, Fox News, 14 June 2017
  • But metformin blunts this process, keeping telomeres intact and well functioning.
    — Ali Finney, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The researchers found that an offspring’s telomere length was not an average of the parents’ telomere length.
    — New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Telocyte’s gene therapy would aim to rebuild those glial telomeres.
    — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Researchers found that the supplement may elongate telomeres, which could prolong the aging process.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Health, 29 May 2025
  • Researchers found that the supplement may elongate telomeres, which could prolong the aging process.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Health, 29 Jan. 2026
  • But extremely short and extremely long telomeres are seen as a predictor of cancer risk.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2019
  • Serving as protective end caps on chromosomes, telomeres are longest at birth and shrink steadily with age.
    — Holly Haber, Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • This study suggests that vitamin D works by safeguarding those telomeres.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Some scientists are trying to extend life by extending the telomere.
    — Kirsten Weir, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2011
  • Differences in telomere length were already present at the two-cell stage of the embryo, before the embryo’s own genes are even active.
    — New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2025
  • For example, long-telomere fathers with short-telomere mothers, and vice versa.
    — New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In a nutshell, telomeres are caps found at the ends of chromosomes that protect DNA.
    — Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health.com, 1 Oct. 2019

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