Growth Hormone: Elixer of Youth or Dangerous Snake Oil?

• Aging,
• Benefit,
• Diabetes,
• Diet,
• Growth Hormone,
• Longevity,
• Senescence,
• Weight Gain

Andy Bartke is Professor of Physiology and Director of the Department of Medicine at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and a board...

Sleep Aging

• Aging,
• Calorie Restriction,
• Drosophila,
• Functional Senescence,
• Immune system,
• Life span,
• Restoration,
• Stem Cells,
• sleep

Paul Shaw is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. His research is...

Sirtuins Aging and Disease

• Aging,
• Alzheimer,
• Degenerative Diseases,
• Huntington's,
• Mice,
• Parkinson's,
• SIRT1,
• Sirtuin

Leonard Guarente in the Novartis Professor of Biology and Director of the Glenn Laboratory for the Science of Aging at the Massachusetts Institute of...

The Double-Edged Sword of Cellular Senescence

• Aging,
• Caloric restriction,
• Cancer,
• Disease,
• Epigenetics,
• Media,
• Mutation,
• Technology

Judith Campisi is a Professor at the Buck Institute and holds a position at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research is focused on...

• Aging,
• Caloric restriction,
• Diet,
• Drosophila,
• Obesity,
• Stem Cells,
• TOR,
• Technology,
• sleep

Marc Tatar is a Professor of Biology at Brown University. His research is focused on understanding the genetics, mechanisms and the evolution of...

Autophagy and Aging

• Aging,
• Autophagy,
• Cell Death,
• Chaperone,
• Garbage,
• Lysosome,
• Mitochondria,
• Stem Cell

Ana Maria Cuervo is a Professor in the Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her research is...

Muscle Aging

• Aging,
• C. Elegans,
• Caloric restriction,
• Diet,
• Health span,
• Muscle mass,
• genetics

Monica Driscoll is a Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers University. Her research is focused on...

The Molecular and Structural Basis of Age Related Synaptic Alterations in the Central Nervous System

• Aging,
• Brain,
• Caloric restriction,
• Communication,
• Diet,
• Funding,
• Media,
• Research,
• Retina

Melanie Samuel is a Post-Doctoral Associate in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. Her research is focused on...

Regulation of Wnt Signaling in Adult and Aged Stem Cells by Co-Activators and Epigenetic Modifications

• Aging,
• Bone Density,
• Caloric restriction,
• Disease,
• Funding,
• Life span,
• Media,
• Muscle

Thomas Rando is a Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is also the Chief...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• C. Elegans,
• Caloric restriction,
• Diet,
• Hormones,
• Life span,
• Methuselah Mouse Project,
• Mutation,
• Sirtuin

Michael Bonkowski is a Post-Doctoral Associate in the laboratory of Leonard Guarente studying the mechanism by which SirT1 controls metabolism. 

University of California, Berkeley

• Aging,
• Caloric restriction,
• Disease,
• Media,
• Nutritional Science,
• Sirtuins,
• metabolism

Danica Chen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutritional Science and Toxicology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research is...

• Aging,
• Biochemistry,
• C. Elegans,
• Caloric restriction,
• Central Nervous System,
• Development,
• Fasting,
• Stem Cells

Shilpi Khare is a Ph.D. student in the lab of Steven Clarke. She is studying the effects of oxidative stress of protein- repair deficient worms and...

The Aging-Disease Relationship

• Aging,
• Cancer,
• Disease,
• Evolution,
• Healthcare,
• Life span,
• Natural Selection,
• Protein

George Martin is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pathology at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Director of the...