Alec Oskin (ooskin at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca) wrote:
: Does anyone have a list of labs currently working in this field (i.e.
: telomerase characterization / function) and what, specifically these labs
: are doing? I would appreciate it if you could either post such a list
: here or e-mail me directly. Also, can anyone recommend any
: reviews/current papers that would bring me "up to par" on the research
: being done in this field.
This is just a repost of what Suresh Rattan was nice enough to write:
>Sender: lpddist at mserv1.dl.ac.uk>Once again there h ve been enquiries about some basic information about
>telomeres. For those of you who want to have a very general introduction
>to telomere research and progress, a well-written simple article by a
>science-journalist Jean Marx is available in the journal SCIENCE, vol. 265,
>pp 1656, issue dated 16 September 1994, titled CHROMOSOME ENDS CATCH FIRE.
..
>Wish you a good reading.
..
>In the previous posting, I forgot to mention two more interesting
>write-ups on telomeres:
>1, by T.R. Cech in SCIENCE, vol. 266, pp 387, 21st October 1994 issue: giving
>enough background and discussing the publication of a paper in the same
>issue of SCIENCE, pp 404 reporting the discovery of the gene for
>telomerase RNA in the yeast.
>>These two papers should bring any one up-to-date in telomere research.
>Wishing you good reading,
>Suresh Rattan/Aarhus/Denmark
Hope that helps.
--Jason Taylor
