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A comment on Brooke the Immortal: An American Child May Hold Secrets to Aging. Parent comment

Re:Brooke the Immortal: An American Child May Hold Secrets t... by extension on Monday November 01, 2010 @09:03PM (#1858896)
Telomeres prevent cancer by limiting cell division and Brooke's are normal. Other aspects of aging cause cancer but she is supposedly immune to those.

But if her telomeres are shortening, doesn't that mean her aging will eventually catch up to normal because her cells stop regenerating?

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Re:Brooke the Immortal: An American Child May Hold Secrets t... by rbanffy on Monday November 01, 2010 @10:43PM (#1859075)
> But if her telomeres are shortening

It means she is aging. She is not developing.

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Re:Brooke the Immortal: An American Child May Hold Secrets t... by mortenjorck on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @12:06AM (#1859242)
In a nutshell, yes. While the ordering of her cells is not changing with age, their internal chromosomal structure is.
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