TELOMERE EVOLUTION LAB
01 / 08 · Intro

AI4S Open Innovation · AI for Life Science

Telomere Evolution Lab

An evolutionary optimizer searches a telomere-dynamics model for intervention conditions worth running on a real organ-on-a-chip — simulate, evolve, compare, learn.

Live at telomore-production.up.railway.app

Telomeres shorten every division — timing the response is the open question.

Maintenance and repair can slow it down, but both cost the cell something, and every real intervention condition costs a real culture run.

Telomere Evolution Lab searches that space in silico first, including organ-on-a-chip culture conditions — flow, oxygen, nutrients, stress — before anyone commits a physical chip.

How the experimentation loop works

Nine lab tools, one simulator core

Live simulation preview

The same panel as the real Simulate page — watch it run

Live Simulation Preview
Generation 8,420

Inside one cell — telomeres in 3D

The app's 3D view: caps shorten with every division until the cell is depleted and senescent.

Normal
cycle0
mean telomere7.48 kb
senescence limit3.00 kb

Illustration of a typical cell reconstructed from the run's summary statistics — not a measured single cell.

What the lab has actually found

Try it live — no login needed to look around.

studylab.id/telomore
+ Foci Lab, real microscopy: studylab.id/foci
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