Leonard P. Guarente
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Novartis Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Coauthor of Molecular Biology of Aging (2008).
Primary Contributions (1)
Aging, progressive physiological changes in an organism that lead to senescence, or a decline of biological functions and of the organism’s ability to adapt to metabolic stress. Aging takes place in a cell, an organ, or the total organism with the passage of time. It is a process that goes on over…
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Publications (1)
Ageless Quest: One Scientist's Search for the Genes That Prolong Youth (December 2002)
Ageless Quest is a personal, sometimes controversial, account of the pursuit of a genetic 'cure' for aging by an expert in the field. The author is the Novartis Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Aging has always been regarded as a highly complex process with many degenerative changes leading to the cessation of life. But recent research has identified a relatively simple mechanism that governs the pace of aging. Lenny Guarente's Ageless Quest is a scientific detective...
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