From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 - 21:53:00 MST
At 12:10 PM 3/19/03 +1030, Emlyn wrote:
>What about if we find out down the
>track that there are really good reasons to sometimes turn telomerase on?
There probably are unless you want to perish at the Hayflick limit, but you
can probably do without telomerase for a while, until the tumors are
extirpated, then switch it back on. The real problem is having it active in
all the trillions of somatic cells, because quite often by chance some of
those little buggers are going to accumulate all the necessary errors for a
cancer *except* active telomerase. It's a juggling act, up there in the
future. Of course for brains in vats like Emlyn corrosion might be a worse
hazard.
Damien Broderick
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