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Duke-NUS Medical School

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Using home-grown designed telomeric-DNA sequences, called ‘Telobaits‘, and highly-advanced DNA sequencing technology, scientists can now precisely determine the length of a single telomere from an individual. This technique could potentially be used to measure the impact of lifestyle or drug interventions to tackle ageing-related diseases.

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Dr Javier Koh, Duke-NUS Medical School

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