Telomeres Are Your Friends: The Key to Longevity

Quick anatomy lesson: The human body is composed of organs—which are composed of tissue—which are composed of cells—which perform different functions. Cells number 10 trillion to 100 trillion in an adult. In the nucleus of cells are chromosomes. Picture a chromosome as a double-twisted shoelace. The plastic tip at the end of the shoelace is … Read more

Here’s to Good Health and Ears to Good Hearing

A few weeks ago at the Tech Museum in San Jose I watched the IMAX Movie: Human Body. The movie was filmed with microscopic photography—showing a highly-magnified version of  how the human body is created (with an egg, the largest cell in the body, being fertilized by one of the smallest—pesky millions of dinky sperm … Read more