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Alzheimer’s Research — Connecting the Dots

September 9, 2010

RKP Comments on Recent Articles on Promising Research Results Relating to Alzheimer’s Disease
The first article is a press release from MIT on the research conducted by Dr. Guarente’s Lab.  Click here to read the article.  The second, an article posted on PLoS One, describes the effect of  rapamycin on AD progression.  Click here to read [...]

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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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Director’s Notes, from Robert Kane Pappas

January 30, 2010

On Halloween (October 31st) 2006, I read the front page story in the New York Times Science section, regarding calorie restriction (CR) and its effects on the health and lifespan of monkeys. Two days later there was a second article beginning on the front page of the Main section, which amplified the first story.
Scientists at [...]

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