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Real patient experiences
Is a sprint between two 90-year-olds an ageist spectacle?
If we couldn’t see their faces and didn’t know their ages, we wouldn’t think this was very athletic. Someday soon, we will not consider age to be very important and the existence of a contest between two genetically-damaged individuals will not be elevated to a noble spectacle but will seem exploitative.
Chromosomal damage is inevitable and desirable; it’s the repair that causes problems
Thankfully, telomere shortening causes them to mutate and mutation triggers self-destruction. What we want is to preserve the critical stem cells.
UCI students ban the American flag? Not in my backyard, bucko!
This week, some crazy kids got a Publishers’ Clearing House-sized reality check after attempting a “liberal” flag ban; it came in the form of a veto, a media storm, and a deafening silence of support.
Telomerase doesn’t cause cancer
If you are interested in understanding what does cause cancer, watch the first 15 minutes of this PODCAST 12: “Telomerase Doesn’t Cause Cancer”. I believe that telomerase is a retained feature of stemness and that cancer arises usually in stem cells, not telomerase-inactive differentiated cells.
Prenatal smoking may shorten telomeres
It may come as little surprise but maternal smoking is associated with shorter newborn telomeres.