Re: Telomerase

From: Zeb Haradon (zharadon@inconnect.com)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 07:34:12 MST


-----Original Message-----
From: William Blair Haworth Jr. <bhaworth@duke.edu>
To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>
Date: Friday, February 18, 2000 4:27 AM
Subject: Re: Telomerase

>On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Zeb Haradon wrote:
>
>> This makes me drool with telomerase lust:
>> http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000217/ca_geron_2.html
>
>> Telomerase Prevents Onset of Liver
>> Cirrhosis in Mice
>[...]
>
>CBS Radio managed to report this story this morning without actually
>using the word "telomerase". Simply breathtaking.
>
>--Blair
> bhaworth@duke.edu

Yeah it's annoying.. the first article I read on it was pretty scant too. I
was dying to know if it was gene therapy or genetic engineering that had
delivered the telomerase in the mice and it wasn't mentioned (that's
important.. if it's gene therapy I could do it to myself with modern
technology).

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