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They fixed their RSS feed—for their blog—a few days ago, so I ended up on the site (having previously subscribed). It was interesting to see they're looking at using the therapy for other conditions.

Do you know if there's any scope for doing something to reduce cancer risk, with this tech? Such as enhancing P53, or something like that (if that doesn't damage the individual).

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One of the GRG regulars raised the suggestion that perhaps we don't see increased cancer risk in mice following telomerase therapy - and that's after the research group in question dropped the addition of tinkering with P53, and moved to straight telomerase overexpression, interestingly - because the immune system improvement means that there is more and better cancer immunosurveillance going on. I'm not aware of any earnest data to support or contradict that hypothesis, however.

Thanks!

What's GRG? Do you have a link to the comment?

The Gerontology Research Group, originally organized by the late Stephen Coles. The mailing list is a watering hole of sorts for the gerontology community and some of the surrounding advocates and entrepreneurs, though much less so now than used to be the case.

It is a closed list, so no link, I'm afraid.

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