Aging Matters
There’s a suppressed science correlating cell phone use with cancer risk. It is suppressed because the health risks pose a basic threat to the business model of the booming cell phone industry, with looming regulation and a devastating spate of future law suits. In defense of the scientific community, I hasten to add that there … Read more
True, but that’s not really the relevant question to ask. In fact, aging has a major impact on mortality in the wild, and this poses a dilemma for evolutionary theory. In the earliest stages of senescence, already an individual may be losing its competitive edge. When an epidemic passes through, those with compromised immune function are the … Read more
Last week, I attended the tail end of a Keystone conference on Epigenetic Regulation of Aging, followed by a one-day brainstorming session to kick off a project called GILGA-mesh, intended to take this bull by the horns. Though the subjects of the two days were virtually identical, the approach and attitudes of the scientists in attendance … Read more