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