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Article #8637Re: Cell Division Number
From: Patrick Van Esch
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 00:00
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Aldor wrote: > > Jim Barron wrote: > > > > Aldor wrote: > > > > > > AgAcademy wrote: > > > > > > > > Aldor wrote: > > > > > > > > > I wonder if anyone has tried increasing the length of units on the > > > > > telomeres of mice. Would they grow bigger, live longer, or neither? [...] > > > > Changing the number of units would only affect those cells (which would > > be a VERY small fraction of the cells in an adult animal. You would > > have to change the GENES that code for the number of telomeres so that > > when cells divided, all new cell s would have the larger number. And > > THAT we don't know how to do yet! (As far as I know, we don't) > > I don't understand this. Are there genes that code for the number of telomeres ?? This is by itself a piece of genetic code I would think, not a transcribed protein... So if you 'd change that in the original fertilised cell, I would guess it gets copied all along. could you explain what you meant ? cheers, Patrick.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10065c,f70318c0df47ebae X-Google-Attributes: gid10065c,public X-Google-Thread: 10b271,ccc524d8f1578088 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b271,public X-Google-Thread: 1119a6,6f3e9baa02815379 X-Google-Attributes: gid1119a6,public From: Patrick Van Esch <Patrick.VanEsch@ping.be> Subject: Re: Cell Division Number Date: 1997/02/17 Message-ID: <33088444.289C@ping.be> X-Deja-AN: 219388897 References: <32bdf7c1.9705266@nntp.televar.com> <5abf71$jtv@news.fsu.edu> <32d31336.3013442@nntp.televar.com> <5b4030$idc@news.fsu.edu> <32DD2096.6838@ix.netcom.com> <32DE2D18.1D3D@cdc.com> <32E3BE8F.77B3@b.net> <5c0s32$b6b@hplms2.hpl.hp.com> <855349592.1362.0@birdsoft.demon.co.uk> <32FCA485.64C3@loren.com.ar> <32FC9DDB.482E@wildrockies.org> <32FE764F.3098@loren.com.ar> <32FF95D4.1CB9@inw.net> <32FFE58A.749@loren.com.ar> <3305D3C5.23C5@cphl.mindspring.com> <3306683C.364A@loren.com.ar> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: for personal use Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: Patrick.VanEsch@ping.be Newsgroups: sci.physics,bionet.general,sci.bio.misc X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Macintosh; I; PPC)