Ageless Quest

Guarente, Lenny

ISBN 10: 0879696524 / ISBN 13: 9780879696528

Edité par Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2003

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A personal, sometimes controversial, account of the pursuit of a genetic 'cure' for aging by an Novartis Professor of Biology at MIT, Lenny Guarente. Discovered that the protein SIR2 and its related proteins the sirtuins slow aging in many organisms from yeast to mammals. Discovered the key activity of SIR2 related proteins is NAD dependent deacetylation. His work links sirtuin activation in cells to the positive effects of calorie restriction on life span and health span extension. Like new,first printing. An association opy inscribed by the author to Edward Masoro, a leading gerontologist who thinks that not enough is known about the effects of calorie restriction, or CR. 5¾"- 8½" .

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• Titre: Ageless Quest
• Éditeur: Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0879696524
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780879696528
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Printing.
• État de l'article: As new
• État de la jaquette: As new
• Signé: Inscribed by author
• Type de livre: book

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Ageless Quest is a personal, sometimes controversial, account of the pursuit of a genetic 'cure' for aging by an expert in the field. The author is the Novartis Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Aging has always been regarded as a highly complex process with many degenerative changes leading to the cessation of life. But recent research has identified a relatively simple mechanism that governs the pace of aging. Lenny Guarente's Ageless Quest is a scientific detective story for the baby boom generation. It offers an insider's view of an area of potentially astonishing high reward--and equally high risk.