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telomeres

Vincenzo Nardi-Dei vinz at PCLSP2.KUICR.KYOTO-U.AC.JP
Wed May 18 22:12:47 EST 1994


Telomeres shortening seems to be clearly implicated in regulation of cell
ageing even though a stronger force should be the II principle of
thermodinamic and its tendency to enthropy. Uncorrected DNA replication
errors accumulate even affecting the same repairing system encoding
genes provoking a cascade effect. But, is the limited number of cells
replication that happens in the life span of an evoluted organism
enough to provoke such number of errors?

Also I am remembering, when I was child, my father used to cut a branch 
from a tree, put it in the ground and it grew again to become a new tree.



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