How to pronounce“telomerase”in English

So in other words telomerase is one of the mechanisms used by cancer cells to immortalize themselves, and we’ve isolated it and perhaps one day we’ll be able to use things like

The catch is that cancer cells also use telomerase on the way to immortality.

But stem cells express an enzyme called telomerase, which will extend the telomeres on the cells.

Now, we also have other clues, we know that telomerase, for example, can “stop the clock”.

We can now take ordinary human skin cells, apply telomerase on them, and they stop the clock; they simply reproduce forever.

tumorogenesis and cancer the thought being because it was true that when one looked into tumors they always had telomerase active that's the enzyme that

So we did a study together, and we found that after just three months, the telomerase-- which we published in "The Lancet Oncology"--

I thought was interesting um Carol has of course gone on to win a Nobel Prize for her co-discovery with Elizabeth Grider of telomerase the

lengthens art telomeres so those folks were interested in uh bringing about a halt to the lengthening of telomeres in order to

enzyme that lengthens telomeres um but anyway she's a heavy hitter in the academic world I don't know exactly what her purpose

We have a clock in our cells called telomeres, they get shorter and shorter after every cell reproduction, after a certain point they simply unravel the chromosomes of the cell and the