by rss feed | Feb 7, 2023 | Aging, anti-aging, Dr. Davis Sinclair, journal club, News Feeds
About twenty years ago a science story made big news of a so-called anti-aging Methuselah gene. Methuselah gene and anti-aging The claim was that this DNA conferred long life on people. Hence the name Methuselah, which refers to a man from the Bible who reportedly...
by rss feed | Jun 12, 2022 | Aging, Altos Labs, anti-aging, Hevolution, News Feeds, Saudi aging research, weekly reads
I recently wrote about stem cell-related ideas for anti-aging and even cheating death, but there are of course other approaches including drugs like metformin. A new article outlines a massive research funding plan to tackle aging. Let’s start with that....
by rss feed | Jun 1, 2022 | Aging, anti-aging, cheating death, News Feeds
How does one go about cheating death? As I get older, fighting aging seems more relevant. Having battled a potentially fatal cancer also gave me a taste of mortality. In biomedical research, it seems like living longer has become an obsession for some recently....
by rss feed | Jan 20, 2022 | Aging, Altos Labs, anti-aging, Neuro, News Feeds
I wrote briefly a few months ago about Altos Labs. It’s a new kind of biotech institute that is focused on cellular reprogramming. My original piece was sparked in part by an article around the same time by Antonio Regalado over at MIT Tech Review. He provided...
by rss feed | Sep 12, 2021 | Aging, Altos Labs, anti-aging, Jeff Bezos, MYC oncogene, News Feeds, Young blood
Stem cells may have anti-aging properties, but they are unlikely to be a real fountain of youth. Even so, people are obsessed with aging and stem cells regularly are thought of as “the ticket” for fighting aging. I’ll start today’s recommended...
