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.
Tagged: telomeres
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 all the diseases of old age at once.
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...