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alzheimers disease

Aging and Diseases — Video Blog

March 12, 2011

Everyone knows that old age can lead to many diseases and problems.  And sooner or later one of those diseases or problems will kill everybody.    But, what exactly is the relationship of aging to diseases?  The question leads to surprisingly interesting answers.
First, please have a look at this video for opinions of some prominent scientists:

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Practical Steps to Reduce the Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

November 5, 2010

In a previous post (click here), Robert Kane Pappas highlighted the promising research results relating to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) based on one study by a team led by Gizem Donmez in Dr. Lenny Guarente’s Lab at MIT and another involving rapamycin, an anti-rejection drug that targets the mTOR gene.  Translating promising results in the lab [...]

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Reflections on Gizem Donmez

July 29, 2010

Over the course of almost fours years, while making TO AGE OR NOT TO AGE, director, Robert Kane Pappas, visited Dr. Lenny Guarente’s lab at MIT several times.  During that time, he met and filmed many of the post docs working in Dr. Guarante’s lab.  One such researcher was Gizem Donmez, who was recently featured [...]

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