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Studies at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School in Boston showed that mice engineered to lack the enzyme, called telomerase, became prematurely decrepit, an article published by the journal Nature reported. When the enzyme was replaced, the mice recovered their health, the researchers said.

Reawakening the enzyme in cells in which it has stopped working might slow normal human aging, Ronald DePinho, a cancer geneticist at the Dana-Farber institute, says.

"This has implications for thinking about telomerase as a serious anti-aging intervention," he says.

Officials told KOMO-TV in Seattle the man was at State Patrol headquarters in Olympia being interviewed for a civilian management job Oct. 6 when an employee saw a book, "How to Beat the Lie Detector," in the car parked next to hers.

The man was undergoing a polygraph at the time, and officials determined the car and book were his.

"They gave him an opportunity to let them know if he'd looked at some research materials or not and he apparently said 'no,'" staffer Heather Anderson said.
The man was told he would no longer be considered for the job.