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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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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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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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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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Article in Polish Daily News (Nowy Dziennik)

March 8, 2010

Can we live longer? – Aleksandra Slabisz, Nowy Dziennik, February 19, 2010.
[This article was translated from the original Polish article that appeared in the Polish Daily News (Nowy Dziennik) on February 19, 2010.]
Is it possible to delay ageing? Can man live 120 years and enjoy the health of a 50 year old?  It is possible, scientists say.
Delaying [...]

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