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Useful sources of information on calorie-restricted diets and gene chips for measuring antiaging effects:
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Youthful Pursuit
Researchers Seek Key to Antiaging In Calorie Cutback
from The Wall Street Journal, October 30, 2006
Now a coterie of scientists and biotech ventures are rekindling interest in CR as they try to mimic its anti-aging effects with medicines -
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Longevity Genes and Caloric Restriction
from Life Extension Magazine, July 2006
Scientists Say Rapidly Advancing Technologies Hold the Key to Extending the Human Life Span - PDF Format |
Titans of Tech: Anti-aging drugs, cure or quackery?
Major pharmaceutical companies let kid colleagues in biotech do the legwork
from Red Herring, April 8, 2004
Leery of the stigmas of magic potions and quack doctors, large pharmaceutical companies are taking a wait-and-see attitude to the anti-aging market. That has opened up the door for startups to chase after the fountain of youth. - PDF format
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Chasing the Youth Pill
Drugs that might extend human life are one of the hottest topics in biotech. Some of them are already here
from Fortune, April 5, 2004
Over the past few years the area has become a hot topic in serious science .
A raft of studies on potential anti-aging drugs are getting underway. The goal isn't to find youth pills, but to identify drugs that foster a healthier old age - PDF format |
Never Too Old?
Calorie-slashing Diet Might Lengthen Lives of Even Graying Animals-
from Science of Aging Knowledge Environment (SAGE KE) , March 31, 2004
New work suggests that slashing food consumption even fairly late in life can add time - PDF format |
Vanity Sells
Biotech Jumps on the Youth Bandwagon, and Steers Clear of the FDA
from Red Herring, February 6, 2004
The biotech
industry is trying to create an anti-aging drug to replace the
thousands of products fueling today's multi-billion dollar anti-aging
market. - PDF format |
High Tech Search for the Fountain of Youth
Dramatic Advances May Help Biotechs Develop Drugs that Slow Aging -
from Bio.IT World, January 12, 2004
Scores of researchers
have signed up with fledgling biotech companies that are racing to identify compounds that will delay the onset of aging-related diseases and perhaps
put the brakes on aging itself -
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Raise a Glass to Long Life
Chemical in Red Wine Uncorks Longevity in Yeast and Human Cells-
from Science of Aging Knowledge Environment (SAGE KE)
Wednesday, August 27, 2003
Vintners and researchers who tout wine's health benefits now have another reason to toast the beverage: a molecule in red wine boosts survival of yeast and human cells, according to new research. The findings indicate that the compound activates the same life-stretching enzyme as austere diets do and offer a possible way to slow aging -
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