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healthcare, tech Profile| Send Message| (575)    A small company
called BioTime (BTIM) has gotten a lot of attention in the last
couple of days after a press release about cellular aging. To
give you an idea of the company's language, here's a quote:
"Normal human cells were induced to reverse both the "clock" of
differentiation (the process by which an embryonic stem cell
becomes the many specialized differentiated cell types of the
body), and the "clock" of cellular aging (telomere length),"
BioTime reports. "As a result, aged differentiated cells became
young stem cells capable of regeneration."  Hey, that sounds
good to me. But when I read their paper in the journal
Regenerative Medicine, it seems to be interesting work that's a
long way from application. Briefly - and since I Am Not a Cell
Biologist, it's going to be brief - what they're looking at is
telomere length in various stem cell lines. Telomere length is
famously correlated with cellul