Here's the article:

http://www.longevitymeme.org/news/view_news_item.c fm?news_id=976

But the earlier poster is right in that it's more complex than that, and the telomere mechanism is strongly connected with cancer and important regulatory functions. Doesn't mean it's impossible - just that there's a bunch more work to do.

There reasons are varied as to why more people seem to be talking about physical immortality, but the underlying cause is a general discontent for most explanations of an after life. No one remembers anything before their birth. No one will likely experience anything after death. Mystical netherworlds offered by religions have managed to dazzled the masses for centuries, but only because there was no other alternative in face of certain death. Dissonance leads to disillusionment.

Happily, we're starting to wake from this slumber. It's not long now before we see some important life extending technologies come to fruition.

Bruce Klein
Founder, Immortality Institute For Infinite Lifespans
http://www.imminst.org