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Targeting telomeres might be an effective the

• Telomeres are the structures that protect the ends of chromosomes. The ability of tumor cells to continue dividing indefinitely, as if they were immortal, depends on telomeres

• When telomeres are damaged, lung cancer cells lose the ability to divide and the tumor shrinks, new results show

• Targeting telomeres aims at "taking immortality away from cancer cells," says Maria Blasco, senior author of the paper ....

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