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Telomerase

Elmo
in Genetics

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Hi all,

 

Long time ago I studied about telomerase and its ability to regenerate telomeres after cellular division. As far as I remember, this happened with cancer cells. I'd like to know if it would be possible to study the inhibition of telomerase as a way of combating cancer. Any information I could check about this?

 

Thank you all

  • 4 weeks later...

Try googling "telomerase inhibitor", what you are asking about will be in the first few entries if not at the top. Actually there is a lot of research being done on this right now.

  • 2 weeks later...

I have heard of this in cancer cells, it is one of the properties that confers such longevity to them. I googled "The role of telomerase in cancer" and came up with this among others

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10362013

 

The subject is fascinating, let us know anything really interesting you find out. :)

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