TELOMERES AND AGING: Longevity Tied to Genes That Preserve Tips of Chromosomes. “A team led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has found a clear link between living to 100 and inheriting a hyperactive version of an enzyme that rebuilds telomeres — the tip ends of chromosomes. The findings appear in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.” Now if they can just stimulate the same thing artificially. Faster, please.