Mokebe890 t1_iztbdq8 wrote on December 11, 2022 at 6:23 PM

Hm yes, but artificial longering telomeres results in rapid cancer growth. Where is the missing catch then?

Anasthasia218 t1_iztfuw9 wrote on December 11, 2022 at 6:51 PM

I don't think there is any catch and the article says nothing new. We knew about the shortening of the telomeres as we age a very long time ago.

Mokebe890 t1_iztgemx wrote on December 11, 2022 at 6:55 PM

Yes I know but I meant the catch how to work around creation of teratomas.

wiga_nut t1_izviee8 wrote on December 12, 2022 at 3:44 AM

This article isn't focused on telomeres its about RNA transcript length

MRSN4P t1_izu01n3 wrote on December 11, 2022 at 9:00 PM

Do you know of any good articles that describe this rapid cancer trend? I would like to learn more.

David_Ojcius OP t1_izv8vom wrote on December 12, 2022 at 2:27 AM

I imagine that there's a tradeoff?

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freebytes t1_j006cjd wrote on December 13, 2022 at 3:02 AM

An interesting discovery has been that telomerase activation has been shown to decrease cancers early in life. Once cancer begins, that is when telomerase is dangerous. But, many cancers begin because of the damage originating from short telomeres. However, the results of studies can vary, and while it seems like we may have researched such things to death, we need to keep studying it to know more.