Scientists create special ‘telomouse’ with human-like telomeres

In an exciting scientific breakthrough, a team of researchers led by Professor Yehuda Tzfati from the Institute of Life Science at the Hebrew University and Professor Klaus Kaestner from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, has introduced the “Telomouse.” This discovery involves changing just one tiny building block in one gene of ordinary lab mice, Mus musculus, to make their telomeres (our chromosome caps) look much more like the telomeres in humans.