For many years, there was the idea that telomeres control ageing, that maybe progeria patients just have very short telomeres.

很多年來 人們都覺得是 端粒控制著人類的衰老 或許那些患早衰癥的患者只是因為端粒過短

It still comes back to the telomeres.

又回到了端粒的研究上來了

This suggested telomeres were central to ageing.

這提示了端粒對衰老起著關鍵性作用

Bill believes that the ticking clock is our telomeres.

比爾覺得 這個時鐘是端粒

This protective cap on the end of a chromosome is called a telomere.

染色體兩端的保護蓋叫做端粒

Scientists have found the real cause of progeria, and it's not short telomeres.

科學家們找出了兒童的早衰癥的真正原因 并不是由于端粒縮短的引起

Most scientists are now reassessing the role of telomeres in all ageing and not just in progeria.

許多科學家們現在開始重新估量 端粒在早衰癥中所起的作用

Scientists believed that children with progeria were born with especially short telomeres.

科學家相信 早衰癥兒童的端粒生來就相當短

It's the... only neutroceutical chemical, whatever, that exists today that produces telomeres inside my cells.

這只是保健品而已 這藥能使細胞內的端粒增生

Telomereshortening is an absolute problem that we have and every time our cells divide, our telomeres get short.

端粒變短是個無法改變的問題 每次細胞* 我們的端粒變短