Tag Archives: anti-aging

A New Study On High-Speed Aging

By admin | Published: January 6, 2012
Several people emailed me recently for my reaction to media stories on a University of Pittsburgh study in which the short lifespans of mice with a severe form of progeria (accelerated aging) were extended by injections of stem-cell-like muscle cells from young mice. So I took a look at the study and some related research, [...]
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Scientific American on TOR and Aging

By admin | Published: December 20, 2011
If you follow aging science—and my guess is that you’re one of those mortal, aging types who do—you might want to take a look at the latest issue of Scientific American (the January 2012 issue), which has a cover story I wrote for the magazine about research on target of rapamycin (TOR) and its implications [...]
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Sirtuin News For Mammals

By admin | Published: December 12, 2011
The negative buzz about sirtuins recently grew louder when Science ran a lengthy news piece on Dec. 2 titled, “Aging Genes: The Sirtuin Story Unravels.” The article played up studies in lower organisms casting doubt on earlier high-profile reports that sirtuin enzmes play major roles in aging, which in turn challenged the idea that they [...]
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One for the Record Book

By admin | Published: September 29, 2010
Here’s a curious coincidence: The current world records for human longevity and for running the mile were both set back in the 20th century. The longest-lived human was France’s Jeanne Calment, who reached 122 years and 164 days of age before her death in 1997. In 1999, Morocco’s Hicham El Guerrouj ran the world’s fastest [...]
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