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To: neverdem

The telomere is the ONLY defense against cancer. That’s why that enzyme is found in cancer cells. This is not really new, unless the isolation of the enzyme is the actual news.
Once the telomere is switched off, look out. No limit on a cell’s ability to divide is... cancer. I only hope they can get total control of the thing.


6 posted on 10/05/2009 12:35:05 PM PDT by Huebolt (Democrat = (national socialist) = NAZI)
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To: Huebolt; Ernest_at_the_Beach
Here's a good essay on telomeres.
18 posted on 10/05/2009 3:51:00 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: Huebolt
The telomere is the ONLY defense against cancer.

Unless you can show that MTSS1 is a telomere, it's not the only defense, see Metastasis suppressor 1.

29 posted on 10/07/2009 3:47:07 PM PDT by slowhandluke (It's hard to be cynical enough in this age.)
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