In today’s issue of Cell magazine, an evolutionarily conserved protein, SIRT, takes the spotlight in the hit research drama, “Why we Weather with Age”. Researchers from Harvard Medical school demonstrate that the part SIRT plays in DNA damage control during aging may be to blame for some of the ugly symptoms of growing old.
Mammalian protein [...]
Category Archives: Aging
Nov
28
2008
Aging is one SIRTainty in life: for uni- and multicelular lifeforms!
Nov
19
2008
Medicinal Aging?
Compounds similar to THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, have been shown to reduce memory impairments in the aging brain. While marijuana is widely known to impair memory in the short-term, leading scientists from Ohio State University are contradicting this age-old dogma by investigating how endocannabinoids, the brain’s naturally occurring cannabis, can improve memory function [...]
