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Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
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What happens when you mix modern medical entrepreneurship with one of the most ancient of human desires, the desire to live forever? The answer is today's multibilliondollar antiaging industry, which promises everything from restoring lost vitality to actually turning back the hands of time for aging boomers. But who, exactly, makes up the antiagin[Read More]


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The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging

Monday, February 1st, 2010
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In 1998, scientists discovered an enzyme, telomerase, that had the astonishing ability to "immortalize" certain kinds of cells that normally died within a short time. When that discovery was announced to the public, the press put an almost inevitable spin on it: aging was about to become an artifact of the past. Never mind that the scientists i[Read More]


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Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging

Monday, February 1st, 2010
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The author of the national bestseller Fat Land presents this fascinating and, at times, hilarious journey through the strange and wondrous world of longevity science and antiaging medicine---two fields that promise to reshape human life expectancy and transform modern medicine.


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