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repression of telomerase as natural selection

clejan clejan at jumpnet.com
Tue Jan 19 21:48:08 EST 1999


Why has evolution selected for telomerase repression in most somatic
cells? I use to think this was advantageous as a defense against cancer,
but with the new Geron results, I'm not so sure. Any ideas?





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