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Lasker:

Well, it purports in animals to prevent the onset of breast cancer...in mice...and it purports to prolong the life of a mouse by about 50%. Now, whether that's translated into human terms we don't know because the money has been spent to do it.

But if it's true, it could be remarkable. It's a drug first isolated by a friend of mine in France who's a laboratory research man and paid no attention to whether it was ever used or not.

Q:

It was just for the sheer joy of finding it...

Lasker:

Yes, that's all.

Q:

And there are others?

Lasker:

There are a number of others. I can send you a list. Would you like to have a list?

Q:

Yes, surely I have an article here on aging, the process, and how to delay it; and it starts out: “Our life span is fixed. Scientific advances are increasing our life expectancy but not our span.”

Lasker:

Well, nobody knows for sure what our span is yet.

Q:

Anthropologists say it has been the same for a hundred thousand years.





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