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Putting the Fountain of Youth in a Pill - Texas Public Radio

By sageweb on 04 September 2010

Listen to an audio clip from the Texas Public Radio show Bioscience Breakthroughs in which Dr. Arlen Richardson from the Barshop Institute discusses recent research on rapamcyin.

http://www.sageweb.org/content/audio/putting-fountain-youth-pill-texas-public-radio

Putting the Fountain of Youth in a Pill - Texas Public Radio

By sageweb on 04 September 2010

An audio clip from the Texas Public Radio show Bioscience Breakthrough.  The text description follows:

Late-Life Alcohol Consumption and 20-Year Mortality

By sageweb on 31 August 2010

A new paper by this title published in the journal Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research provides further evidence that moderate consumption of alcoh

Rapamycin: a possible treatment for Alzheimer's disease?

By sageweb on 03 April 2010

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SIRT1 is a central mediator in response to food deprivation.

By tammi on 29 July 2010

A study published in the newest edition of the Journal of Neuroscience [July 28, 2010, 30(30):10220-10232] provides further evidence that SIRT1 plays a significant role in the physiological response to fasting in mice.  Imai and colleagues have found a link between neural activation and SIRT1 protein levels in the dors

R script to batch generate survival plots

By bradyo on 31 August 2010

This R script takes a directory of CSV (comma-separated value files) containing lifespan data and generates survival plots for each file.

Does drinking more mean longer life?

By sageweb on 31 August 2010

A new study published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research has received substantial media attention (Time Magazine,

Washington Post - Two books on aging

By sageweb on 28 August 2010

A short Washington Post article on two recent popular books on the biology of aging.  

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/27/AR201008...

 

The two books under discussion are

Can youth be squeezed into a pill?

By sageweb on 28 August 2010

Interesting short interview with David Stipp, author of the The Youth Pill.  In it he predicts that scientists will develop a drug that slows aging within the next twenty years, if funding for aging-related research is increased.