Westphal's team is now crafting compounds that have more potent sirt1-activating effects than resveratrol, hoping they might help tackle diabetes and Alzheimer's.
Planetary scientist James Westphal used his money for a vacation to Fiji, and Wes Jackson, an environmentally correct farmer, used his to build an addition to his house.
The organisation's head of press, Florian Westphal, admitted they had never faced a challenge quite like this: "First we have to make sure that we preserve the original records, " he told me.