On microgravity and its effects at the molecular level

AQUILANO, ROBERTO

Aeronautics and Aerospace Journal

MedCrave

Año: 2019 vol. 3 p. 46 - 47

There are biological processes that could be directly related to physics and the shortening of telomeres is one of them. This fact is something well known and acts like a clock in the life of each living being, but the reason why they are extended in some cases is something not so understood, it is only known that it is directly connected with the activation of telomerase, but it does not know, in some cases, the exact reasons that produces it. I propose that the asymmetry of time is important to know the cellular world, and could even be related to the cause of telomerase activation and the consequent lengthening of telomeres, and microgravity could be part of the explanation.