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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:26:04 EST
Subject: Whale cells

  I'm now working for the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. We have 
been studying primate telomeres in cell culture. It occurs to me that we 
should look at those long-lived whale species and see what their telomeres 
look like, how they handle the cancer problems, etc., since these are the 
only warm-blooded species that live longer than humans. So:
1. Anyone have any spare whale fibroblasts? (and culture protocols?))
2. Can anyone e-mail me the name of that paper on bowhead whale lifespan that 
was posted here a few weeks ago? (I tried searching Medline but there's too 
much stuff on whales, even Bowhead whales.) -- Thanks, Bill

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