Extending life expectancy is not a benefit if the last years of life are spent in painful and undignified circumstances.
Professor Tim Spector of King's College London, who also works on the ageing process, says the focus is not on extending life, but on extending good health.
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The genetic domino effect that his team uncovered may have less to do with extending life, he says, then with making it possible to survive caloric restriction at all.
He speculates that it could also cut the disease's rate of progression in half, extending life by as much as a decade and being a necessary treatment for anyone at risk for the disease.
The less-powerful cores take charge during routine functions, consuming less power and extending battery life.
This prevents the House of Commons from extending the life of a Parliament beyond five years.
Some lenders already have programs that lower payments by reducing interest rates or extending the life of a mortgage.
You say your principles are a balanced budget, a tax cut, extending the life of the Medicare Trust Fund.
In addition, the keyboard dock houses an additional battery, extending battery life up to 18 hours for multi-day use, further ensuring productivity and uptime.
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But Zamft cited European researchers who discovered certain bacteria that can restore such bonds, potentially extending road life and keeping the road crew away.
With its slim form factor, the "A-Drive" could fit into tablet devices, greatly expanding its storage space while extending battery life by up to 30%.
The American makers of Trident are currently working on extending the life of the missiles, so the same weapons will be on the newer boats.
Meanwhile, the Senate Republicans who share control of the chamber slammed Cuomo's budget for extending the life of a tax on businesses that was to expire.
Write caching could allow the hard disk drive to stay in a lower power non-spinning state for longer periods of time, extending battery life for the notebook computer.
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This year his students will work on silencing vibration in Wilson tennis rackets, extending the life of Easton baseball bats and streamlining the bobsleds of the U.S. Olympic team.
Congress overwhelmingly agreed, and I was recently able to sign into law legislation that calls for extending the life of the space station for at least another 10 years.
The government, as owner of mortgages and mortgage-backed securities, will be allowed to make loan modifications by lowering principal and interest rates on mortgages, or extending the life of the mortgage.
The government, as owner of mortgages and mortgage backed securities, will be allowed to make loan modifications by lowering principal and interest rates on mortgages, or extending the life of the mortgage.
Will getting some cash out of borrowers in the short term (by, say, extending the life of the loan to reduce the payments) prove a better deal for investors than immediate foreclosure?
Today, social media has the potential to create a long tail effect, extending the life of expensive campaigns, ultimately improving ROI, and along the way creating and deepening the relationship with the audience.
The federal government's new wariness about offshore drilling in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is dimming what may be the best hope for extending the life of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, a crucial artery supplying one-quarter of the West Coast's oil.
It said that officials were considering extending the life of the RAF's VC10s - due to be retired from service in March - then using the Tristar, which goes out of service next year, to meet air-to-air refuelling needs until the new planes are ready to take over.
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Because of the extraordinary value of this orbiting research outpost, earlier this year I proposed extending the life of the space station until at least 2020 so that NASA can pioneer new frontiers in education and international cooperation that will maximize the scientific return of this important foothold in space.
But they'll have the advantage of consuming less power, extending crucial battery life and allowing the machines to run cooler.
As a result, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is more robust than ever, booting even faster than its predecessor and extending laptop battery life significantly.
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The team's next step is to test whether boosted autophagy can indeed explain the life-extending effects of exercise.
Breathless press coverage has hinted that the compound, or its successors, could one day become life-extending pills for humans.
Bush said he would focus on life-extending care when he proposes a reauthorization of the Ryan White Care Act.
The life-extending results of caloric restriction could still be caused by something else.
Cynthia Kenyon , a researcher at the University of California in San Francisco, found a life-extending gene in C. elegans, a tiny species of worm.
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