Sentences with phrase «without telomerase»
Working in Berkeley, Lundblad discovered that even without telomerase, yeast cells can sustain their chromosome tips — the first example of an alternative telomere - lengthening pathway.
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Because cancer cells also make telomerase, scientists have suspected that the enzyme allows cancer cells to keep on dividing without dying.
By measuring telomerase activity, investigators determined that the group that smoked without drinking red wine showed a 56 % decrease in telomerase activity while the drinking group showed only a 20 % decrease.
Small molecule drugs can be screened or designed to increase telomerase activity exclusively within stem cells for disease treatment as well as anti-aging therapies without increasing the risk of cancer.
Now two reports show that, with the help of an enzyme called telomerase, human cells can divide forever in the laboratory without turning cancerous.
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Because according to her you can't use something like telomerase to increase the length of your telomeres without significantly increasing your risk of cancer.