From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Sun Sep 14 2003 - 11:59:08 MDT
Aubrey de Grey wrote:
>Robert is doing a great job explaining the current undestanding of
>cancer and why it is so hard to combat; I wish I had the time to
>be more expansive myself but I have a small conference coming up.
>All I have time to say right now is that there is a way out of the
>"mess" that Robert describes, which is outlined at:
>
> http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/sens/SENS3.htm
>
>Questions and challenges are of course welcomed, but answers may be
>delayed until Sept 24th.
>
>Aubrey de Grey
>
>
>
I thought that skin and gut cells needed the capability to divide
indefinitely. I.e., that unpredictable environmental insults might
cause any particular skin or gut cell to need to divide an extremely
large number of times, sufficiently numerous that teleomere maintenance
was necessary.
If so, then *SOME* cells had better not have their ability to regenerate
teleomeres knocked out.
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