Author: Johan Gateway
Aging is not plainly about old age. It is a lifelong process by which we define the biological, mental, and social stages in our lives. For centuries, human have sought magical formulas and modern science to delay much more escape from this appalling human condition. There are million sites in the Internet that pertain to aging and more than five hundred thousand searches on the term "reversing the aging process".
The modern era of aging research actually began in 1960 when cell biologist Leonard Hayflick made a significant discovery. But it is only recently that modern biotechnology has begun to work on restoring youth, establishing life longevity, and ultimately reversing the aging process.
The Quest of Immortality
Armed with a growing knowledge of Biology, a new breed of longevity specialists is finding out answers to staying young and living longer. In 1995, Director John C. Guerin headed a study that documented animals which lived 200 years or longer without showing signs of aging. At Geron Corporation, a biopharmaceutical firm, biologist Calvin Harley is working to find the genes that direct telomerase production, believing he might be able to manipulate them so that the regulator for the enzyme can be turned on and off at will. "With a pill or with cell therapy, I think we may be able to treat aging in very specific areas," Harley says.
Other genes implicated in aging have already been flushed out of hiding. Siegfried Hekimi of McGill University in Montreal created his little superworms by breeding long-lived individuals, extending the life-spans of the next generation. He then searched the specimen's chromosomes until he found the mutated gene responsible, a gene he dubbed Clock-1. When Hekimi went looking for similar clock genes in people, he found one so similar, he says, "that it's possible that the whole clock system works the same way. If we find all of the human clock genes, we can perhaps slow them down just a little, so we can extend life expectancy just a little."
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