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We're involved in a very large study that's federally funded and being done with Kaiser Permanente, and saliva is a very non-invasive way to get cells from the body.

~Elizabeth Blackburn

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Cancer cells have had so many other things go wrong with them, genetic, non-genetic changes, that those cells, one of the things they then get selected for is that they have lots of telomerase because now the telomeres in those cells get maintained.

~Elizabeth Blackburn

Topics: Because Cancer Cells Changes Genetic Get Go Had Lots Maintained Many Now One Of The Things Other Selected Them Then Things Those Wrong

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Cancer cells have a lot of other things that are really wrong with them, and we should never forget that these are cells that have become deaf to all the signals that the body sends out, such as you can multiply a certain amount, you can be in a certain place in the body, where to stay, where to move, and so on.

~Elizabeth Blackburn

Topics: Amount Become Body Cancer Cells Certain Deaf Forget Lot Move Multiply Never Never Forget Other Out Place Really Sends Should Signals Stay Them Things Where Wrong You

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When you bring telomerase RNA levels down by using a mechanism that targets the RNA for destruction, the cells which were running on very high telomerase levels are now running on a lean diet of telomerase.

~Elizabeth Blackburn

Topics: Bring Cells Destruction Diet Down High Lean Levels Mechanism Now Running Targets Using Very Were Which You

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The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this ability to produce themselves over and over again. More and more cancer biologists say stem-cell-like cells in cancers are the most dangerous.

~Elizabeth Blackburn

Topics: Ability Actually Again Biologists Cancer Cells Dangerous Like More More And More Most Over Produce Say Stem Stem Cells Themselves Which

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A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.

~Elon Musk

Topics: Battery Cell Cells Challenge Chemicals Collection Combining Definition Large Large Number Little Number Safely Taking Them Very

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The thyroid cells take up iodine with particular avidity and are able to store it up in great quantities.

~Emil Theodor Kocher

Topics: Able Cells Great Particular Quantities Store Take Thyroid Up

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From the physical point of view, a man is nothing more than a system of cells, or from the mental point of view, than a system of representations; in either case, he differs only in degree from animals.

~Emile Durkheim

Topics: Animals Case Cells Degree Differs Either He Man Mental More Nothing Only Physical Point Point Of View System Than View

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One of the central mysteries of biology is why the genome is largely identical from cell to cell, even though cells do different things.

~Erez Lieberman Aiden

Topics: Biology Cell Cells Central Different Different Things Even Genome Identical Largely Mysteries Things Though Why

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There are many cells you could look at forever in 3D.

~Eric Betzig

Topics: Cells Could Forever Look Many You

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