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267 Cousteau Place Davis, CA 95618 (530) 297-4651 phone (530) 297-4400 fax News Major advance in understanding the microcircuitry of cognition December 04, 2012 CMB Director, Steve Luck, elected to AAAS December 02, 2012 CMB Team receives $2.3M grant from the Templeton Foundation to continue meditation research November 21, 2012 CMB postdoc receives Ig Nobel prize September 25, 2012 UC-Davis selected as a site for the NeuroNEXT Network for Excellence in Neuroscience Clinical Trials July 07, 2012 More news… Quick links University Library MyUCDavis Search the CMB

Center for Mind and Brain > People > Steven Luck > Miscellaneous Content > CMB researchers demonstrate that meditation can increase telomerase activity, as reported in Time, Science Daily and The Huffington Post Personal tools Log in CMB researchers demonstrate that meditation can increase telomerase activity, as reported in Time, Science Daily and The Huffington Post The Shamatha Project, led by Dr. Clifford Saron at the UC-Davis Center for Mind & Brain, has shown that intensive meditation can lead to increases in telomerase, an enzyme important for the long-term health of cells in the body. UC-Davis Press Release: http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=9669 Time.com Article: http://healthland.time.com/2010/12/23/could-meditation-extend-life-intriguing-possibility-raised-by-new-study/ Science Daily Article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101103171642.htm Huffington Post Article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wray-herbert/meditation-research_b_780525.html