RE: telomerase cancer vaccine

From: Ramez Naam (mez@apexnano.com)
Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 - 21:41:57 MST

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    From: Emlyn O'regan [mailto:oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au]
    > There's not a lot of detail in that story. It's pretty
    > fantastic news if it is the panacea that it's purported to be.

    The result was in a petri dish. I may turn out to be amazing, but
    it's not clear yet. It's certainly exciting.

    > One niggling point... is this going to make the immune system
    > attack any cell with the Telomerase gene turned on? What
    > about if we find out down the track that there are really
    > good reasons to sometimes turn telomerase on??

    There certainly are. Adult stem cells in the body have telomerase
    turned on. So this is a reasonable concern about a vaccine of this
    sort.



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