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The same sources thought to inflict oxidative stress on cells — pollution, diesel exhaust, smoking and obesity — also are associated with shorter telomeres, the protective tips on the ends of the chromosomal shoelace.
A new study from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, published in Molecular Cell, provides the first smoking gun evidence that oxidative stress acts directly on telomeres to hasten cellular aging.
