Tag Archives: senescence

Putting the impact of dementia in perspective

Impact: Major Disease Cures    September 23, 2010
What constitutes a major disease? Percentage of population affected, certainly. Global prevalence, yes. Severity of effects, yes. Difficulty of treatment, perhaps. I wrestled with this question in thinking about creating a category of medical research that will have great impact on human life, an Impact Area. There are so many diseases. Unless you’re a medical [...]
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Study confirms telomere’s role in living longer

News: Extending Lifespan    November 16, 2009
Confirmation is a vital part of the scientific process. In this case confirmation involves our knowledge of telomeres. We know that telomeres, the short strip of DNA found at the ends of chromosomes, play a big role in protecting the DNA from gene loss during the many replications within a cell. One of the 2009 [...]
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