An interesting article about successes with tissue longevity using the
telemorase lengthening processes;
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/122998sci-immortal-cells.html
One team, led by Choy-Pik Chiu of Geron Corp., which owns rights to
the telomere-override component, says its laboratory cultures of
immortalized cells have doubled more than 200 times, with their
anti-cancer genes still in good order.
This confirms the idea that the cells will "provide therapeutic
opportunities for age-related diseases," the Geron scientists assert.
Usually cells divide only 50 times or so, depending on their type,
before telomere shortening drives them into senescence.
The other team, headed by Woodring Wright and Jerry Shay at the
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, said their
altered cells had gone through 280 doublings, also without showing any
of the wayward behavior typical of cancer cells.
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