Chemistry Nobel Prize — DNA research lays foundation for new ways to fight cancer
My lab is interested in understanding how the DNA damage response is regulated specifically at telomeric DNA.
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Review: Rejuvenation Biotech Conference
Fifteen years ago, Aubrey de Grey organized the first SENS roundtable–Strategies for Engineering Negligible Senescence. It was a small group of out-of-the-box thinkers, heretics who talked about attacking head-on the idea that aging is just part of the human condition, looking for medical (and beyond-medical) treatments that would restore strength, stamina, and alertness, and lower the risk of al...
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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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