Tetrahydrofuran (THF) (Wako Chemical, Osaka, Japan, 99%) and pyridine (Kanto Chemical, Tokyo, Japan, 99.5%) were distilled over sodium wire before use. Other materials were used without any ...

MTBE (methyl tertiary-butyl ether) is a chemical compound that is manufactured by the chemical reaction of methanol and isobutylene. MTBE is produced in very large quantities (more than 200,000 ...

Butyl rubber, also known as polyisobutylene is a synthetic rubber or elastomer. It was first developed in the 1940’s by German chemists and commercialised in 1943. The typical composition of butyl ...

A small-molecule compound named TAC has been identified that reawakens the catalytic subunit of telomerase (TERT) in somatic cells and, in doing so, stalls multiple hallmarks of natural aging without ...

Their observations led them to hypothesize that TERT had other functions beyond synthesizing telomeres and that overall telomerase levels were important in the aging process. Based on these findings, ...