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“我就是不想死”,82岁的美国德克萨斯州石油大王米勒·夸尔斯说,“这并不是说我怕死,我只是要呆在这个世界上,因为它太令人激动了。” 为此,这位百万富翁提供了10万美元的巨资,聘请一批科技尖子,成立了全球第一家专门致力于研究控制衰老疗法的“杰龙公司”。5年后,在拉斯维加斯召开的美国抗衰老研究会上,韦斯特宣布:他们已发现了控制细胞生死的机制——位于细胞染色体两端的“端粒”。每当细胞分裂或染色体中的DNA复制,“端粒”便变短一些;减短到某一长度时,细胞便停止分
“I just did not want to die,” said Miller Quarles, 82-year-old oil chief at Texas State in the United States. “It does not mean that I am scared to death. I just want to stay in this world because it is so exciting ”To this end, the millionaire provided a huge sum of US $ 100,000 and hired a group of technology leaders to set up the world’s first“ Jay Long Company ”dedicated to the study of the control of aging. Five years later, at the American Anti-Aging Symposium in Las Vegas, West announced that they had discovered a mechanism to control cell death-death - the “telomere” at the ends of the cell’s chromosomes. Whenever a cell divides or the DNA in a chromosome is duplicated, the “telomere” becomes shorter; when it is shortened to a certain length, the cell stops