The War on Aging: An Update from the Front Lines
Interventions into the degenerative aging process are still only in their infancy.
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From Roscoff, with Rotifers
I have just returned from the first Monod Conference on the Comparative Biology of Aging.
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Anti-Aging Science: Despite Progress, Challenges Remain
Last month a team of doctors and scientists made the case to regulators at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to consider approving anti-aging drugs as a new pharmaceutical class. Such a designation would treat aging as disease rather than a natural process, potentially opening the door to government funding for anti-aging drug trials. To some, such a drug may seem impossible. Yet, the physiol...
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Anti-Aging Pills in the News
Last week Len Guarente announced his company will be selling a proprietary anti-aging formula based on NR, the NADH precursor.
Read More »Human genetics: One gene, twenty years
During the day, Lap-Chee Tsui and Francis Collins were attending a gene-mapping workshop. At night they were scrutinizing the pages churning out of a fax machine they had set up in a dorm room.
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