www.nature.com New TYT Network channels: www.youtube.com www.youtube.com New TYT Facebook Page(!): www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com www.theyoungturks.com DISCOUNTS: www.theyoungturks.com FREE Movies(!): www.netflix.com Note: The above two links are for TYT sponsors. Read Ana’s blog and subscribe at: www.examiner.com TYT Network (new WTF?! channel): www.youtube.com Check Out TYT Interviews www.youtube.com Premature ageing can be reversed by reactivating an enzyme that protects the tips of chromosomes, a study in mice suggests. Mice engineered to lack the enzyme, called telomerase, become prematurely decrepit. But they bounced back to health when the enzyme was replaced. The finding, published online today in Nature1, hints that some disorders characterized by early ageing could be treated by boosting telomerase activity. It also offers the possibility that normal human ageing could be slowed by reawakening the enzyme in cells where it has stopped working, says Ronald DePinho, a cancer geneticist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, who led the new study. “This has implications for thinking about telomerase as a serious anti-ageing intervention.” Other scientists, however, point out that mice lacking telomerase are a poor stand-in for the normal ageing process. Moreover, ramping up telomerase in humans could potentially encourage the growth of tumours. After its discovery in the 1980s, telomerase gained a …
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#1 by 72dew on April 20th, 2011
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my 18 year old brother took a dose of this enzyme and HE TURNED INTO A BABY!!!!
#2 by simba90s on April 20th, 2011
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I am studying to become a biologist and i wanna concentrate all my future efforts on telomerase. I dont wanna be eternal, but i wanna live at least a couple of centuries, to see how humanity will progress. ;D
#3 by YourFathersBrother on April 20th, 2011
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the lady obviously has no experience in biology whatsoever =/
#4 by FunkyFreshLondonboy on April 20th, 2011
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Guys, ready your breakfast and eat well, for tonight we invade MONGOLIA!!!!!!!!
#5 by MemeMachine1 on April 20th, 2011
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“Some believe religious organizations will terrorize it and hold back its progress much more than Stem Cell Research.”
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#6 by MemeMachine1 on April 20th, 2011
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be glad youre in generation experiment, better than the past 7500 generations of humans
#7 by JabberCT on April 20th, 2011
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@trentWHY It depends on your age and how successful the testing is. Some people like Aubrey De Grey think that people under 50 may get the benefits of it because technology keeps doubling every 1 to 2 years. Anyone under 40 has a better chance. Some think in just a couple of decades these treatments can be available. But others like Michio Kaku (64yrs old) are not so optimistic. Some believe religious organizations will terrorize it and hold back its progress much more than Stem Cell Research.
#8 by evgeniy13 on April 20th, 2011
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@obamasucksdick99
that’s why we have to nuke them all., Allah ahbar!!!
#9 by rudolfhess2012 on April 20th, 2011
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@obamasucksdick99 your stupid your probably a damn Muslim or fag if you think we live too long go kill your self.
#10 by obamasucksdick99 on April 20th, 2011
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humans already live too long
#11 by ryandward on April 20th, 2011
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Are you serious? te-LO-me-rase… Do? you speak English? All English words with Latin bases have antepenultimate stress.
#12 by ryandward on April 20th, 2011
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Are you serious? te-LO-me-rase… Do? you speak English? All English words with Latin bases have antepenultimate stress.
#13 by PortalTutorials on April 20th, 2011
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Wow, she just said everything ass backwards.
#14 by unassumption on April 20th, 2011
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@Lariasio
what does living longer have to do with overpopulating? we do the latter anyway. Need to give sexual supressants or drugs that make people impotent IMO. And live as long as possible. Why so hateful of viruses? all animals are plant parasites, the world is a dead ball of rock. We’re the only thing that doesn’t spend 99% of our life in fear and pain, human happiness brings the only net decrease in suffering. If humans don’t kill all life a meteor or volcano or something else will.
#15 by unassumption on April 20th, 2011
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though overpopulating might be bad for humans…not sure if anti aging would have ANYTHING to do with that though.
#16 by unassumption on April 20th, 2011
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@theguruofreason
class M? What is this, star trek? That’s not a real term is it…
people WAY over-estimate human importance, we’re moss on the surface of the planet couldn’t hurt it if we tried, might kill the other organisms (but so far not even a meteor that cracked the surface has). All life is torture and terror in nature, humans enjoy themselves; do whatever brings us happiness, the only way for a net decrease in suffering IMO.
#17 by unassumption on April 20th, 2011
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@miragemanager
science gives you your youth back, you praise god. In allcaps, of course.
#18 by unassumption on April 20th, 2011
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Is there evidence having mortal cell lines makes multicellular organisms age? I think aging can be combated we’ve been doing that by tackling degenerative diseases, but its got lots of facets and no one cure. Knockout mice with telomerase live substantially longer from what I heard . not sure why.
#19 by unassumption on April 20th, 2011
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@bbphnix
it occurs in the germ cells doesn’t it? Cancer is a multi step process with the regulatory mechanisms being swirched off, telomerase switches one or two off but there’s about 6 of them. It would increase cancer rates though it doesn’t exactly cause it. Other causes of aging (kidney nephrons break every so often we have a finite number, eyes keep growing throughout life hence long sightedness, bones getting brittle in latter life) would still exist. We need to tackle them all to end age
#20 by unassumption on April 20th, 2011
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I did an essay on that last year. its about CELL aging not human aging. Unfortunately it gives you cancer to not have your cells age. Other causes of aging exist. Knockout mice for the win. I bet conservatives will hate it as “unnatural.” We need a cure for cancer first. There’s a reason for homeostasis for telomerase.
#21 by PaulHartXYZ on April 20th, 2011
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A company named BioTime did this two years ago.
Aging will be a thing of the past in about 5 – 7 years.
#22 by mastalp01 on April 20th, 2011
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@TubeSaki a side effect is cancer
#23 by markfeeney on April 20th, 2011
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Incredible…
#24 by fablan6 on April 20th, 2011
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@trentWHY Nop.
#25 by trentWHY on April 20th, 2011
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@fablan6 maybe, you’re taking my original comment way too seriously