Imagine that today is your first day at a brand new job, and your new boss slaps an enormous booklet on your desk, then walks off without a word. The ...
Space aging
People have been talking about terraforming and colonizing Mars since the beginning of space travel, and in the past few years that ambition seems to ...
Free radicals are not your enemy | An interview with Dr. Michael Ristow (part i)
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...
In the media: Clones, condiments and canines
TIL that one of my favorite condiments, Liquid Smoke, is basically just like eating advanced glycation end products (AGEs). That and other gems can be...
Michael Fossel on telomerase therapy in cancer, Alzheimer’s, and more
Last week we heard the theoretical side of Dr. Michael Fossel’s mission to bring aging to its knees, and why his chosen point of attack was on t...
Più mosso, Maestro! An interview in the key of telomere with Dr. Michael Fossel
With three decades of experience as a professor of clinical medicine under his belt, Dr. Michael Fossel takes a fundamentally pragmatic approach to ta...
Longevity orthologs: How far from the apple to the tree?
Laboratories studying the biology of aging are a menagerie of creatures great and small. From unicellular yeast and nematodes, all the way up to prima...
When cancer was just a twinkle in your epigenome’s eye
A friendly genie appears in a puff of smoke and tells you that you’ll develop cancer 20 years hence. However, he offers to send you back in time to an...