Re: Telomere Timebomb
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 4:24 am
Yesterday may have been the birth of a new company IMMORTAL CELL SCIENCES (which for now is a fictitious name for Inteligent*Vitamin*C, Inc) I say may because the alias still has to be approved by the state of Illinois, etc.
Our new liposomal telomerase activator will be IMMORTAL's this that or the other. When I googled the name to make sure it was available, I found this.
Five Reasons Henrietta Lacks is the Most Important Woman in Medical History
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-01/five-reasons-henrietta-lacks-most-important-woman-medical-history
Our new liposomal telomerase activator will be IMMORTAL's this that or the other. When I googled the name to make sure it was available, I found this.
Five Reasons Henrietta Lacks is the Most Important Woman in Medical History
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-01/five-reasons-henrietta-lacks-most-important-woman-medical-history
Her cells, taken from a cervical-cancer biopsy, became the first immortal human cell line—the cells reproduce infinitely in a lab. Although other immortal lines have since been established, Lacks's "HeLa" cells are the standard in labs around the world. Together they outweigh 100 Empire State Buildings and could circle the equator three times. This month, PopSci contributor Rebecca Skloot's book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, tells the story behind the woman who revolutionized modern medicine. Here, five reasons we should all thank Henrietta Lacks.
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5. It was discovered that Lacks's cancerous cells used an enzyme called telomerase to repair their DNA, allowing them, and other types of cancer cells, to function when normal cells would have died.