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Content of the Lesson: Until now, researchers have assumed that healthy cells switch off the enzyme telomerase as a way to protect themselves from turning cancerous. But a new study suggests the enzyme may have a healthier role than we previously thought. Researchers have also figured out a way to store energy from mechanical waves! Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-09/uom-ekf082819.php https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/8/eaaw3255 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3370421/ https://www.jci.org/articles/view/95148 https://www.osapublishing.org/optica/fulltext.cfm?uri=optica-4-12-1457&id=377272 https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(00)00805-8?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982200008058%3Fshowall%3Dtrue https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(00)80580-2?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867400805802%3Fshowall%3Dtrue https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/08/29/1907199116.short?rss=1 Image Sources: https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/209712.php https://www.videoblocks.com/video/sound-wave-visualization-mcie6zx https://www.videoblocks.com/video/dna-telomeres-act-as-the-aging-clock-in-every-cell-spqc4kkdmjdk1nh1z https://www.videoblocks.com/video/senior-man-holding-hand-of-baby-oycnufj https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/chromosome-x-3d-illustration-gm545456920-98320301 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/two-mice-sitting-closely-together-gm144721144-4655731 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/rear-view-of-an-albino-white-mouse-mus-musculus-gm480740751-36654144 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/telomere-gm670202484-122541287


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