X-Message-Number: 4849
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
From:  (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Telomerase blocker developed?
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 06:52:11 GMT
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Recent news reports (see <> if you
subscribe to our service) announce the development of a telomerase
blocker.

Aside from the obvious capabilities of this as a cancer cure (with the
life-prolonging results that come from that) might this have other
longevity consequences?   Might we be able to temporarily turn on
telomerase in parts of the body, for regeneration, and then block it
where cancers develop or before they get too far?

With this, and the reported artery clearing proteins from Italy, who knows
how long a normal lifespan is going to become soon, even without
mechanical nanotech.
-- 
Brad Templeton, publisher, ClariNet Communications Corp.	 
The net's #1 Electronic newspaper		     http://www.clari.net/brad/


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