Whitechapel - Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer 2013-05-19T12:51:39-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192722#Comment_192722 2009-10-05T18:53:47-07:00 2013-05-19T12:51:39-07:00 groundxero http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7299 Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer This year’s Nobel Prize in medicine went to a trio of scientists who discovered the enzyme telomerase, which allows cells to divide ...

Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer


This year’s Nobel Prize in medicine went to a trio of scientists who discovered the enzyme telomerase, which allows cells to divide without any limits, making them effectively immortal.

It may be nature’s greatest double-edged sword. Coax cells into producing telomerase, and they will survive indefinitely, but they will also become cancerous.

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“In the absence of a comprehensive understanding, it’s very dangerous,” Muller said. “We have to figure out how to do maintenance on our telomeres.”

Muller thinks humans could live for 90 to 210 years once scientists know more about the molecular basis of aging.

“If we could figure out how to do maintenance, we could extend our lives,” he said. “But it has to be done very carefully, and we’d have to have a comprehensive understanding of the mechanism. ”
]]> Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192726#Comment_192726 2009-10-05T20:08:29-07:00 2013-05-19T12:51:39-07:00 howyadoin http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1675 It really does my heart good to know that I'm part of one of the last generations to not live forever. Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192728#Comment_192728 2009-10-05T20:15:07-07:00 2013-05-19T12:51:39-07:00 ZJVavrek http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4243 Stuff like this keeps getting discovered, proven, etc. It kind of creeps me out. Of course, by "stuff like this", I mean the scientific discoveries which would become the foundations of ...
Of course, by "stuff like this", I mean the scientific discoveries which would become the foundations of technologies I imagined for a cyborg role-playing character of mine. I'm not sure how comfortable I am with the premises I made up five years ago actually being born out by science.

Oh well, at least his nanotechnology is still impossible. (I eventually decided that it was powered by magic.)]]> Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192736#Comment_192736 2009-10-05T21:43:56-07:00 2013-05-19T12:51:39-07:00 allana http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4019 i'm starting to think i should've gone into science. i want immortality so, so badly. so, so badly.]]> Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192739#Comment_192739 2009-10-05T22:20:07-07:00 2013-05-19T12:51:39-07:00 Brandon Seifert http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=333 "Immortality" when you're talking about cells is somewhat different than the immortality most of us mean. Just because cells can copy themselves over and over again doesn't mean they can't ... Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192758#Comment_192758 2009-10-06T00:59:50-07:00 2009-10-06T01:00:09-07:00 Brendan McGinley http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=93 ...this gives me a good enough idea to warrant a rewrite of a comic. Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192778#Comment_192778 2009-10-06T03:53:38-07:00 2013-05-19T12:51:39-07:00 Flabyo http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1306 Why is it all I can picture is some desperate person injecting themselves full of this stuff, only to go all 'Tetsuo from the closing scenes of Akira' on us. Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192779#Comment_192779 2009-10-06T04:02:24-07:00 2013-05-19T12:51:39-07:00 William George http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7366 It really does my heart good to know that I'm part of one of the last generations to not live forever. I've long had the sneaking suspicion we're all going to get our jet-packs and flying cars ... It really does my heart good to know that I'm part of one of the last generations to not live forever.

I've long had the sneaking suspicion we're all going to get our jet-packs and flying cars about two weeks after I die]]> Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192781#Comment_192781 2009-10-06T04:10:49-07:00 2013-05-19T12:51:39-07:00 helloMuller http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=560 Its always nice to see reality catch up with fiction. Deadpool]]> Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192782#Comment_192782 2009-10-06T04:12:46-07:00 2013-05-19T12:51:39-07:00 keyofsilence http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7294 @Flabyo KANEDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
KANEDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA]]> Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192811#Comment_192811 2009-10-06T07:42:55-07:00 2013-05-19T12:51:39-07:00 Davies0010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6002 I'm honestly surprised this has been awarded the nobel prize. Or rather, that it's only now been awarded the nobel prize, as i've been taught about telomerase for 3 years at university. Seems almost ... Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192814#Comment_192814 2009-10-06T07:51:33-07:00 2013-05-19T12:51:39-07:00 James Puckett http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2911 Or rather, that it's only now been awarded the nobel prize, as i've been taught about telomerase for 3 years at university. The Nobel prize in science is often award years, sometimes decades, ... Or rather, that it's only now been awarded the nobel prize, as i've been taught about telomerase for 3 years at university.

The Nobel prize in science is often award years, sometimes decades, after the work it is awarded for. I was actually kind of surprised to see this award given that telomerase research might never lead to anything especially useful.]]> Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192820#Comment_192820 2009-10-06T08:24:27-07:00 2013-05-19T12:51:39-07:00 agentarsenic http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2955 Yes! We'll all live to be 200 but look like walking tumors! Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192826#Comment_192826 2009-10-06T08:59:03-07:00 2013-05-19T12:51:39-07:00 Verissimus http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3379 Bleh. Immortality is overrated. Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192865#Comment_192865 2009-10-06T11:34:18-07:00 2013-05-19T12:51:39-07:00 arklight http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5355 LOL at the Akira reference! Heri http://www.youtube.com/thearklight LOL at the Akira reference!



Heri

http://www.youtube.com/thearklight]]> Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192882#Comment_192882 2009-10-06T13:56:51-07:00 2013-05-19T12:51:39-07:00 chris g http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1829 "Nah, sometimes I kinda WANNA die." ]]>