an enzyme, active chiefly in tumors and reproductive cells, that causes telomeres to lengthen: facilitates cell division and may account for the immortality of cancer cells.
更多telomerase例句
Blasco takes these changes as evidence that TA-65 works by “turning on” telomerase.
But he says the pill can still activate telomerase in human cells in the lab—and the low potency helps to reduce safety concerns.
That life-giving source is the enzyme telomerase, which can actually lengthen telomeres.
TA-65, the new study claims, is a “telomerase activator”—that is, it turns on telomerase in cells.
Made from a Chinese root, TA-65 helps to activate telomerase, which rebuilds the strands.