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I'm trained as a biologist and in complete agreement, this is a press stunt with no substance. A couple further questions - In a longitudinal study testing te
by krpa 11y ago
I'm trained as a biologist and in complete agreement, this is a press stunt with no substance.
A couple further questions -
In a longitudinal study testing telomere length in a large human cohort, 44% of people had longer telomeres than when they were 10 years younger (and 10 years is a lot of aging!)
http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1004191 http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/jou...
...So even if her telomeres did get longer, how confident can we be that is at all related to the gene therapy?
Instrument / sample variability in SpectraCell measurements. Is there any data on this? How significant is a change from 6.71kb to 7.33kb anyways?
- argparse2 11y ago"So even if her telomeres did get longer, how confident can we be that is at all related to the gene therapy?" Because: 1- They got radically longer in only 12 months since the delivery. 2- There are previous studies backing up the claim, in rodent and in-vitro models tho. Read the links in this thread. What we are witnessing is only a bypass of the standard trials process. I do not share the method, too risky, but there's undoubtedly substance.
- Apofis 11y agoSo let's say this isn't a bunch of bullshit, what benefit does she stand to receive from having her telemeters becoming longer again?