From: John K Clark (johnkc@well.com)
Date: Sat Jul 25 1998 - 11:07:17 MDT
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On Sat, 25 Jul 1998 Damien Broderick <damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU> Wrote:
>just in the last month or so, a paper was published by David Beach
>and colleagues in which they have repeated the experiment using
>cells from a human tissue cell type different from the type used in
>the originally published experiment of extended life span. They now
>find that these other cells do not have their lifespan extended when
>the same experiment of expressing the telomerase gene is done.
Interesting. I missed that paper, where was it published?
>So we're back to not knowing whether expressing telomerase really IS
>important in human life span.
It may not be the entire story, probably isn't, but even if it only effects
some human cells it's probably important.
John K Clark johnkc@well.com
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