I have not watched the entire Blackburn interview but if you are so inclined, have at it:
She is not looking any younger but does give an account of playing with ants as a girl in Australia.
Alternatively, you could look at the other Google Alerts for today about telomeres showing that protecting them reduces aging whereas permitting telomere recombination ages them:
I was asked for the 1,000th time today whether telomerase causes cancer since it is present in 85% of cancers. I found this interesting article supporting my focus on a cancer stem cell model- that is to say not all cancer cells are immortal either and there are special ones that retain their super-powers, like flying.
Just a brief video showing an illustration of how telomerase works. I don’t believe there is an “End replication problem” as such because you want the non-stem cell ends to erode in the less valuable, differentiated and mortal cells. They are like drone bees that last months, unlike the queen bee stem cells which last years
So I guess I’ll just have to sit here like Leif Ericson in New England until other Columbi (plural of Columbus?) decide to plant their flag on this wonderful new world of common sense and scientifically-backed conclusions.
In this brief segment from 2010, CBS news interviewed me about TA-65 a year after the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded for the discovery of telomerase, the substance that TA-65 “activates” and that keeps your stem cells from becoming damaged.
In this 9-minute video, I explain the association between stress and my stem cell theory of aging and disease. The final common pathway seems to be inadequate restoration, primarily via poor quality sleep and therefore inadequate telomerase activity.
