Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak are credited with discovering how chromosomes are protected against degradation -- a field that could shed light on human aging and diseases, including cancer.
In 1995, the late Richard C Strohman, then emeritus professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote of the impossibility of Darwinian biology in explaining human aging and disease.
But in recent years, he has lobbied NASA extensively to get the agency to use him for geriatric research, helping to connect the space agency's researchers with scientists eager to see how weightlessness may affect human aging.
Researchers in the department currently have one on-going study funded by Nu Skin related to the identification of master regulators and epigenetic changes to human skin aging.
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Then the human smells come through: aging flesh, perfume, breath mints, sweat, tobacco.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration on Aging (AoA), the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as well as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have also moved the HIV and aging agenda forward.
Currently, Bernie serves on committees including the Chicago Commission Human Relations (CCHR), the National Asian Pacific Center on Aging (NAPCA) Board, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) Board, and Council for the Illinois Department on Aging.
Elixir focuses on another molecular mechanism linked to aging, one that casts doubt on the fad of taking human growth hormone to keep you young.
He figured drugs stimulating the human version of sir2 (called sirt1) might harness natural defenses against diseases of aging.
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