Posts Tagged ‘telomeres’


Stress, Telomeres, New Clinical Tests & the Real World

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

People who attended the Cardiff conference, WBI University or have heard my speeches or workshops, know that I emphasize the science of stress to convey the seriousness of bullying’s impact on people. The primary impact of bullying is the onset of stress-related diseases and other health complications.

Elizabeth Blackburn won the 2009 Nobel prize for Medicine and Physiology. I previously wrote about her work. Briefly, she discovered 20 years ago the telomere, chromosome-protecting caps at the end of strands of DNA. Telomere damage or shortening translates to advanced cellular aging. (more…)

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