Month: September 2009

Day 2 of the SENS4 conference. “SENS” stands for Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence. Senescence is the ‘aging’ of biological cells and tissues. But aging is a vague and poorly defined word. What do you think of when you hear the word ‘aging’. You might think of words like inevitable, or natural. But you might…

Holly Brown-Borg from the university of North Dakota presented some interesting research showing that “Ames Dwarf” mice live up to 70% longer than regular mice! That would mean you or I could be living well past 130 years old. So what is so special about an Ames mouse? Well they are missing the ability to…

I’m currently at Queens College Cambridge UK attending the SENS4 conference. The general theme of the meeting is the scientific foundations and research behind anti aging, and more specifically life extension and QUALITY of life extension. This is the first of four days of seminars, lectures, posters and nights out in the pubs with all…