Many imaginary ideas of science fiction writers have been implemented into reality: the telephone, the submarine, the rocket, etc. Today another idea straight out of a science fiction novel became a reality. This time it happened in the sphere of genetic engineering — geneticists managed to find the mythical “source of youth”. Though precise aging mechanisms still haven’t been proven to work, scientists still managed to find out that the aging processes directly depends on the size of telomeres which are on the ends of chromosomes — the longer they are, the longer a person lives.
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