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We think there are lifestyle factors that boost telomerase naturally.

Work by Maria Blasco, Calvin Harley, Michael Fossel, Woodring Wright and Shay and Ronald Depinho in particular are of interest but there are literally thousands of articles relating to telomerase, telomeres and the biology behind it.

In my early work, our molecular views of telomeres were first focused on the DNA.

What is it that keeps you so interested in the telomere? It's so intricate and complicated, and you want to know how it works.

For me, arguably the story of telomeres and telomerase began thousands of years ago, in the cornfields of the Maya highlands of Central America.

I was using very unconventional methods to sequence the telemetric DNA, originally.

I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.

And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.

It is particularly pleasing to see how purely basic research, originally aimed at testing the genetic identity of different cell types in the body, has turned out to have clear human health prospects.

What I found out on Christmas Day 1984, through biochemical evidence, was that telomeres could be lengthened by the enzyme we called telomerase, which keeps the telomeres from wearing down. After I found that out, I went home and put on Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA,' which was just out, and I danced and danced and danced.