X-Message-Number: 15692 From: Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:26:04 EST Subject: Whale cells I'm now working for the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. We have been studying primate telomeres in cell culture. It occurs to me that we should look at those long-lived whale species and see what their telomeres look like, how they handle the cancer problems, etc., since these are the only warm-blooded species that live longer than humans. So: 1. Anyone have any spare whale fibroblasts? (and culture protocols?)) 2. Can anyone e-mail me the name of that paper on bowhead whale lifespan that was posted here a few weeks ago? (I tried searching Medline but there's too much stuff on whales, even Bowhead whales.) -- Thanks, Bill Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15692