Studium Generale | Kapteyn Lecture | Good News (and Bad) at the Ends of our Chromosomes - Titia de Lange

When our cells divide, the ends of our chromosomes – the telomeres – get shorter. In the end, this causes cell duplication to stop: one of the mechanisms of ageing. So the popular belief is that telomere shortening is a bad thing, but actually it is not. More information