This document summarizes recent findings relating to telomeres, centromeres, and their connection to anxiety and cell division. Specifically, it was found that: 1) anxiety is linked to shortened telomeres in middle-aged and older women, increasing risks of disease and early mortality, and 2) while centromeres were thought to contain a single Cse4 protein, live cell imaging revealed there are actually two Cse4 molecules interacting at the centromere during cell division. Understanding centromere structure is important for genomic integrity and detecting genetic diseases from cell division errors.