X-Message-Number: 7754
Subject: "Perry E. Metzger": Of Sheep And Men ... and telomeres
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 18:14:59 -0500
From: James Wetterau <>

Perry E. Metzger wrote:

... some stuff ...
>> A general question to the orgs then: what do you intend to do with
>> cloning technology now that it is available to you?
>
>The technology is not yet available. Presuming the Scottish sheep
>cloning experiment is real (probable, but the experiment hasn't been
>reproduced yet -- we have only one sheep) and that there are no odd
>unforseen problems (like the hayflick telomere clock not having been
... and then more stuff ...

There is news in today's NY Times indicating that telomeres may not
have a role related to aging as clear cut as was believed heretofore.
This brief excerpt from an article which may be accessed by http at
(note the Times's articles are updated frequently, so this won't be
there for long, and they require a password which you may register to
obtain at no cost):

www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/sci-telomere-cancer.html

should make the point clear:

    Dr. Titia de Lange, a cell biologist at Rockefeller University who
    recently published a paper on this phenomenon in human cells, said
    that telomeres "are constantly moving back and forth between states."
    They alternate between growing and shrinking "in a dynamic
    equilibrium," Dr. de Lange said. 


All the best,
James Wetterau


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