Assertion: telomere | /r/CapableOf | become shortened
Facets:
value: critically
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Over time, telomeres wear down and become shortened.
text: In cancer, when telomeres become too shortened, telomerase is up-regulated to increase telomere length, but in crisis stages, M1 -M2, quantum state entropy is too great for the defensive mechanism to overcome the anarchy of cells.
text: Eventually telomeres became critically shortened, and as observed in crisis, end-to-end chromosomal fusions became evident and were followed by widespread cell death.