Telomeres in space?

Julian Rubenfien, a high school student from New York, has won a competition to investigate why astronauts age more quickly while in space. He thinks that telomeres may shorten more rapidly in space than they do when back on earth and his experiment will check this out.

Rapid telomere shortening is also the problem that causes dyskeratosis congenita, so we at DC action will be awaiting the results with interest.

You can read more about it here.