He and his colleagues have been working on synthetic drugs called "Sirtuin activating compounds" or STACs.

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Initially, the whole field of sirtuin science was called into question as scientists from other companies had difficulty reproducing the original experiments.

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It is these sirtuin super-stimulators that interest Dr Sinclair.

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However, as reported by Nicholas Wade in the New York Times, new research has shown that resveratrol influences sirtuin proteins, not as originally thought, but rather by changing the shape of sirtuin proteins in a cell.

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