Answer:
Recently around 2008 i believe a female scientist found the end of our chromosomes and what the enzyme telomerase did.
Step-by-step explanation:
What was awesome was they telomerase fixes the small fragements of DNA that degrade over time. A study was done on mine one was treated with the enzyme the other was not keep in mind the mice were old. The reated mice actually seemed to reverse age because its fur became shinier and its bones strong it just seemed healtehr and it was. The other of course stayed old. So the discoveries help push our life expectancy farther than we used to think was convinient