Ageless Quest: One Scientist's Search for the Genes That Prolong Youth

Guarente, Leonard

ISBN 10: 0879696524 / ISBN 13: 9780879696528

Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Pr, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ageless Quest: One Scientist's Search for the Genes That Prolong Youth
• Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Pr
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879696524
• ISBN 13: 9780879696528
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Leonard Guarente is Novartis Professor of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.