Telomere trade-offs

An article in this week’s NEJM provides some of the best evidence yet for the role of telomere length in the trade-off between slowing aging and the risk of cancer. DeBoy, E. A., Tassia, M. G., Schratz, K. E., Yan, S. M., Cosner, Z. L., McNally, E. J., Gable, D. L., Xiang, Z., Lombard, D. […]