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The Pentagon’s mad science arm may have come up with its most radical project yet. Darpa is looking to re-write the laws of evolution to the military’s advantage, creating “synthetic organisms” that can live forever — or can be killed with the flick of a molecular switch.
Findings Support Study Of Telomerase As Potential Single, Specific Anti-Cancer Target
MENLO PARK, CA — December 23, 1994 — An "immortalizing enzyme" known as telomerase is active in many different kinds of cancers and cancer cell lines, but is not found in the normal tissues from which those cancers arose, according to a study published today in Science by researchers from The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and Geron Corp.
These results confirm and extend earlier studies suggesting that telomerase might be a specific and universal marker for cancer with potential as a target for anti-tumor diagnostics and therapeutics.
"IMMORTALIZING ENZYME" DETECTED IN MANY TYPES OF CANCER
Originally posted by soficrow
Let's not forget that CANCER is the oldest "immortal organism."
Findings Support Study Of Telomerase As Potential Single, Specific Anti-Cancer Target
MENLO PARK, CA — December 23, 1994 — An "immortalizing enzyme" known as telomerase is active in many different kinds of cancers and cancer cell lines, but is not found in the normal tissues from which those cancers arose, according to a study published today in Science by researchers from The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and Geron Corp.
These results confirm and extend earlier studies suggesting that telomerase might be a specific and universal marker for cancer with potential as a target for anti-tumor diagnostics and therapeutics.
"IMMORTALIZING ENZYME" DETECTED IN MANY TYPES OF CANCER
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Originally posted by socrates271
Originally posted by soficrow
Let's not forget that CANCER is the oldest "immortal organism."
"IMMORTALIZING ENZYME" DETECTED IN MANY TYPES OF CANCER
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Hm, I don't understand your logic. Apparently a cellular response to a certain environmental input is an organism?