Dr. Michael Ristow, a professor of energy metabolism at ETH Zurich, bases much of his research into aging on a premise that many of us will find surpr...
Metformin: Stress versus strength
Imagine pulling a rubber band taut and flicking it with your finger. As long as you don’t flick too hard, the rubber band will always snap back into i...
The joy of scientific discovery, converging disease mechanisms, and failures of communication: Dr Gordon Lithgow on the past and present of geroscience (part II)
Dr. Gordon Lithgow of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, who spoke to us recently about the Caenorhabditis Intervention Testing Program, talks ...
Dr. Gordon Lithgow on conflicting results in longevity studies, the origins of the CITP, and more (part I)
Dr. Gordon Lithgow got in on the ground floor of aging research in the lab that discovered the first anti-aging mutation, age-1, and has spent the 25 ...
Do aging circadian clocks have tricks up their sleeves?
Most lifeforms wrap their lives around a 24 hour wheel that dictates when to rise, when to eat, when to grow, and when to sleep. From its seat in a pa...
Intriguing results for Thioflavin T, but reproducibility is the real winner in CITP
Bolstering results from a 2011 study, a team led by Buck Institute researcher Gordon Lithgow found the compound Thioflavin T to increase the lifespan ...