Whitechapel - Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer Sat, 25 May 2013 13:37:57 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192722#Comment_192722 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192722#Comment_192722 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:53:47 -0700 groundxero

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.

and
“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 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192726#Comment_192726 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:08:29 -0700 howyadoin Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192728#Comment_192728 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192728#Comment_192728 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:15:07 -0700 ZJVavrek
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 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192736#Comment_192736 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:43:56 -0700 allana so, so badly. ]]> Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192739#Comment_192739 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192739#Comment_192739 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:20:07 -0700 Brandon Seifert Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192758#Comment_192758 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192758#Comment_192758 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:59:50 -0700 Brendan McGinley Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192778#Comment_192778 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192778#Comment_192778 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:53:38 -0700 Flabyo Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192779#Comment_192779 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192779#Comment_192779 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:02:24 -0700 William George 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 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192781#Comment_192781 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:10:49 -0700 helloMuller Deadpool ]]> Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192782#Comment_192782 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192782#Comment_192782 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:12:46 -0700 keyofsilence
KANEDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ]]> Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192811#Comment_192811 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192811#Comment_192811 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:42:55 -0700 Davies0010 Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192814#Comment_192814 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192814#Comment_192814 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:51:33 -0700 James Puckett 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 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192820#Comment_192820 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:24:27 -0700 agentarsenic Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192826#Comment_192826 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192826#Comment_192826 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:59:03 -0700 Verissimus Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192865#Comment_192865 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192865#Comment_192865 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:34:18 -0700 arklight 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 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6964&Focus=192882#Comment_192882 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:56:51 -0700 chris g ]]>