Month: November 2016

I have just returned from three months in Beijing as a visiting scholar at the National Institute for Biological Sciences.  My host was Meng-Qiu Dong, who heads a lab studying aging in worms.  At the end of my stay, I took a look at longevity from the perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine.  There is no … Read more

The dominant theory of aging today was conceived at a time when genes were thought to be biological destiny.  Handiwork of George Williams, it is called Antagonistic Pleiotropy.  Pleiotropy is the idea that one gene can have multiple effects, and the core of the AP theory is that there are genes that give us strength … Read more