Empowered Patient Podcast

Eros Lazzerini Denchi PhD, Associate Professor, The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) talks about his exciting discovery of a protein that fine-tunes the cellular clock and impacts aging and the development of cancer.  The novel protein TZAP binds the ends of chromosomes and controls a process called telomere trimming.  Eros provides a little perspective about the long journey in our understanding of telomeres and telomerase and the intriguing questions that this new discovery opens up.   @scrippsresearch TZAP: A telomere-associated protein involved in telomere length control Science January 12, 2017      Eros Lazzerini Denchi and Julia Su Zhou Li The Scripps Research Institute