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My Favorite Resveratrol, Promising Results for Mimetic

August 22, 2011

On the front page of the NY TIMES – August 19,2011 –Nicholas Wade reported on Dr. Rafael de Cabo’s newly published study on the positive effects of a resveratrol mimetic SRT-1720 on obese mice.  
To read the entire NY Times article by Nicholas Wade, click here.
I have followed this study, but I have also followed another one, [...]

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Notes on the 2011 Harvard / Paul F. Glenn Symposium on Aging

June 22, 2011

One content note in the program for the David Sinclair/Bruce Yanker hosted aging Symposium certainly catches your attention. It’s the blurb at the bottom of Dr. Jonathan L. Tilly’s page outlining his presentation.
“Rewinding the Female Biological Clock for Fertility Reasons: An End to Menopause as Well?”
To me, this exemplifies the stunning hints of the deep [...]

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Aging and Disease — a comment by Robert Kane Pappas

March 15, 2011

Last week, Vince Giuliano wrote a probing blog about aging and disease, which can be found on this site and on agingsciences.com.  I contributed a video clip. One of his underlying points is that a disease which is cured by stimulating one of these regulator genes — for instance SIRT1 or mTOR –- will likely [...]

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Comment on Recent Article on Resveratrol in the NY Times

January 20, 2011

In a January 11, 2011 article by Nicholas Wade in the New York Times Science Section Titled: ‘Doubt on Anti-Aging Molecule as Drug Trial Stops’, the piece begins with:
 ”The pharmaceutical company Sirtris announced last month that it had halted the last of its clinical trials of resveratrol.”
 I wasn’t aware of the article until a friend [...]

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Thoughts on New Aging Conference by RKP

October 4, 2010

Robert Kane Pappas Comments on the New Aging Conference and his Conversation with Dr. Brian Kennedy 
I have been on the road this past week – filming Dr. Brian Kennedy (the new CEO of the Buck Institute) at the Cold Spring Harbor Lab’s Fall Conclave of Molecular Biologists; and speaking on aging research at the University of [...]

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Featured in Seniors for Living

July 28, 2010

To Age or Not to Age: Intriguing Research Featured in New Film
By Michelle Seitzer
[The following article was originally posted on Seniors For Living on July 27, 2010.  Click here for the original article.]
People in New York City were treated to an interesting new film, To Age or Not to Age, this July at the Village East Cinema. [...]

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TO AGE OR NOT TO AGE ON SPECTRUMCULTURE.COM

July 20, 2010

To Age or Not to Age

By Shannon Gramas
[Originally posted on spectrumculture.com (where snobbery and trash collide) on July 19, 2010.  Click here for original article]
In the series of Future History stories written by the science fiction author Robert Heinlein, mankind has developed the technological capability to arbitrarily extend the human lifespan. Repeated applications of the [...]

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TO AGE OR NOT TO AGE IN LATIN AMERICAN HERALD TRIBUNE

June 17, 2010

Marcela Sanchez: A Better Option for Aging
By Marcela Sanchez
I just returned from an extended trip to see my parents in Colombia.  Their health has deteriorated this last year and by the time I arrived my father was in the hospital looking extremely thin and having difficulty breathing.  As he puts it, in nine months he [...]

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OPENING IN NYC ON JULY 16TH

May 10, 2010

 
TO AGE OR NOT TO AGE opens in New York City on July 16th at the Village East Cinema,  181-189 Second Avenue (at 12th Street). 
Show times for July 16th through July 22nd are as follows:  11:00 am,  1:00 pm, 3:15 pm, 5:30 pm, 7:45 pm, 10:15 pm.
On Friday, July 16th and Saturday, July 17th, [...]

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PROMISING RESULTS IN RAPAMYCIN STUDY ON OLDER MICE

March 15, 2010

Followers of To Age Or Not To Age may be interested in this study on the effect of rapamycin (a compound found in bacteria from Easter Island) on elderly mice, which was reported in an article by Brandon Keim, Cancer Drug Delays Aging in Mice, originally published in Wired on July 8, 2009.
According to the article,
“the study provides [...]

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