Are telomeres non extendable?

Transient delivery of modified mRNA encoding TERT rapidly extends telomeres in human cells

 Authors

1. John Ramunas*,¹, 
2. Eduard Yakubov^†,¹,², 
3. Jennifer J. Brady*, 
4. Stéphane Y. Corbel*, 
5. Colin Holbrook*, 
6. Moritz Brandt*, 
7. Jonathan Stein^‡, 
8. Juan G. Santiago^§, 
9. John P. Cooke^†,² and 
10. Helen M. Blau*,³

1. *Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Clinical Sciences Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA; ^†Falk Cardiovascular Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA; ^‡SpectraCell Laboratories, Inc., Houston, Texas, USA; and ^§Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

1. ↵3Correspondence: Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 269 Campus Drive, CCSR 4215, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. E-mail: hblau@stanford.edu