Telomere extension turns back aging clock in cultured human cells, study finds

Re:Telomere extension turns back aging clock in cultured hum... by vannevar on Friday January 23, 2015 @05:02PM (#8937590)

I suspect that telomeres are just one component in a system that maintains an organism's biological stability, and that simply lengthening them without reference to the rest of the system will just get you a young, cancer-ridden body.

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Re:Telomere extension turns back aging clock in cultured hum... by beeworker on Friday January 23, 2015 @05:27PM (#8937729)

Yes, sometimes the problem is that a cell refuses to die. SENS has come up with a list of 7 general problems (it's increasingly unlikely to be any more) that collectively form the problem of "aging" and need to collectively be addressed to cure aging. Death-resistant cells is just one of the 7. http://sens.org/research/introduction-to-sens-research

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Re:Telomere extension turns back aging clock in cultured hum... by daemonk on Friday January 23, 2015 @07:43PM (#8938311)

Interestingly, there are evidence of non-cannonical functions of telomerases involved in wnt/myc signaling.

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