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Friday, October 24, 2008, 07:00 PM: Life Extension with Jerry Emanuelson
Jerry will be talking about his 25+ year experience with life extension treatments, including hormone injections, his longevity doctor, what treatments to ask a doctor for, how to find and guide a doctor, an interesting example of the 'medical priesthood vs. empowered patient' conflict as more healthcare treatments are about prevention/enhancement, getting his DNA scanned with deCODEme and opensourcing his genome on the SNPedia.com, and more.
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By the mid 1970's, the mechanisms by which ageing can
evolve had a secure theoretical basis in population
genetics. Here, we discuss how subsequent evolutionary
work has focussed on testing and extending this theory,
and on attempting to integrate it with other emerging
facets of the biology of ageing, such as genetic studies of
long-lived mutants and of phenotypic plasticity in ageing,
such as in response to nutritional status. We also describe
how functional genomic studies are providing new
insights into the evolutionary forces shaping genome
evolution and lifespan control. Future challenges include
understanding the biochemistry of longevity and how its
failure generates ageing and associated diseases, and the
determination of the genetic basis of lifespan evolution
and the great plasticity that it displays.
PDF, 7 pages
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