The petition was sponsored by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM), which, according to PR Watch, describes itself as «a small research institute» that studies «biochemistry, diagnostic medicine, nutrition, preventive medicine, and
the molecular biology of aging.»
In collaboration with his children, he continues his research into
the molecular biology of aging, which he says «has the potential to improve human nutrition and preventive medicine, increase the human lifespan, and decrease the tragic suffering and loss of early deaths.»
As one of the three initial cores established when the Buck Institute was founded, the Genomics Core has played a vital role in helping shape investigations in the basic
molecular biology of aging, from assisting in the investigation of how specific drugs can extend lifespan in simple model organisms such as the nematode C. elegans, to facilitating studies in various animal models of age - related disease.
Recent advances in
the molecular biology of aging have yielded a host of candidates.
In matters of the fundamental
molecular biology of aging, we mammals are not so different from tiny C. elegans worms.
Not exact matches
In the
age of particle physics, quantum mechanics, nanotechnology, and
molecular biology, we should be more realistic as to reality.
Kass, the scientist, «tasted the great pleasures
of independent discovery» during «the golden
age of molecular biology,» but those, it seems, were never his greatest pleasures or deepest concerns.
In
biology, free radicals are often regarded as the source
of all evil and the major cause
of molecular damage and
aging.
Offered annually to a scientist under
age 40 working in Europe, the prize (a gold medal and a personal award
of $ 10,000) recognises outstanding contributions in the field
of molecular biology.
Wayne Bowen,
biology professor and co-director
of the
Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology Graduate program at Brown University, agrees that reaching African - American students at a young
age is crucial.
He is «an unusual character» who's distinctive for «bringing epidemiological thinking and methodology into dialogue with
molecular and cell
biology» to answer important questions about
aging, says gerontologist Thomas Kirkwood
of the University
of Newcastle in Newcastle - upon - Tyne, U.K.
He recognized that the study
of aging had lacked robust scientific inquiry, and he conjectured that molecular biology tools could fuel real progress in the field — a forward - looking viewpoint that few others espoused at the time, says immunologist Claudio Franceschi, director of the Italian National Research Center on Aging in An
aging had lacked robust scientific inquiry, and he conjectured that
molecular biology tools could fuel real progress in the field — a forward - looking viewpoint that few others espoused at the time, says immunologist Claudio Franceschi, director
of the Italian National Research Center on
Aging in An
Aging in Ancona.
«Earlier studies have shown that vitamin E can help regulate the
aging body's immune system, but our present research is the first study to demonstrate that dietary vitamin E regulates neutrophil entry into the lungs in mice, and so dramatically reduces inflammation, and helps fight off infection by this common type
of bacteria,» said first author Elsa N. Bou Ghanem, Ph.D., postdoctoral scholar in the department
of molecular biology and microbiology at Tufts University School
of Medicine (TUSM).
AGEs impair this axonal transport and alpha adrenergic blockers (acting on cell «stress receptors») can exert a protection
of this phenomenon.Thus, will look on the
molecular mechanisms
of this process (crosslinking
of motor proteins in axonal transport, energy depletion etc.) by analyzing the colocalization
of fluorescence staining
of (motor --RRB- proteins and tagged
AGE - molecules and by methods
of molecular biology.
Studies
of satellite cell activation via nitric oxide have opened an exciting area
of research on muscle regeneration, growth and the muscle - fiber cytoskeleton that integrates mechanical and biochemical signal transduction with cell and
molecular biology of muscle tissue in growth, development, disease,
aging and evolution.
Edward Bullmore, UK Robert Dow, UK Garrett Fitzgerald, USA - Prostanoid
biology and the role
of peripheral
molecular clocks in cardiovascular
biology, metabolism and
aging Alex Phipps, UK - Oncology, Clinical Pharmacology, Biologics and Immunotherapy Patrick du Souich, Canada - Cytochrome P450, membrane carriers, disease, inflammation, rational use
of drugs, clinical pharmacology David J. Webb, UK - hypertension, chronic kidney disease, endothelial function and dysfunction, arterial stiffness, health technology assessment, medicines regulation Don Birkett, Australia - Clinical pharmacology / pharmacokinetics and drug utilisation
I am a child, a product
of the
age of molecular biology.
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