Dr. Ed Park: Understanding Telomerase Inhibitors and Potential Benefits (iHealthTube)

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Dr. Ed Park: Understanding Telomerase Inhibitors and Potential Benefits (iHealthTube)
YouTube video by Dr. Ed Park (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwHZPDXC0oQ). Transcript is the auto-caption track — verbatim ASR, not a certified transcript.

can you explain what a tarase inhibitor is sure um the taras enzyme is like a um printing press it prints out six base pairs the human tiir are TTA G so every time it prints out six and it moves along and six more Etc so if you do a a reverse image of that GG a then it gums up the printing press so you're just trying to keep the printing press from working so the company that discovered the ta65 um back in 2002 they have been long working on a drug called IM metal stat which is just that it's a anti- template for the printing press and so they recently published studies showing it helps with a a form of a blood disorder so like a leukemia yes like tied there too can you can you talk about how how that ties in and how that works um I'm not really too clear it's the the research is kind of preliminary but it it's just basically is cells that that are funky that are damaged you gum up their printing press so they die of old age just like ordinary cells um which sounds like a good thing but um in my opinion usually tiir lengthening is a better way to handle uh cancer cells cuz when you um lengthen T is often times cells are able to go into apoptosis and kill themselves but both ways work I mean I guess it would be like putting out a fire with fire or water you could do it either way as long as you're destroying the the stem cell that's bad