Epithalon peptide induces telomerase activity and telomere elongation in human somatic cells

Khavinson VKh, Bondarev IE, Butyugov AA · Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine

Reports induction of telomerase activity and telomere elongation in somatic cells — the single most-cited claim of the whole program, and the origin of the telomerase language used in bioregulator marketing.

Population

Human fetal fibroblast cultures

Intervention

Epithalon (AEDG)

Comparator

Untreated cultures

Limitations

Two-page report from the originating institute; a different peptide from Cartalax. The first reproduction by a laboratory with no institute author came in 2025, twenty-two years later, in two normal human cell lines, alongside a finding the original did not test: telomere lengthening in cancer lines through the ALT pathway.