The youth pill : scientists at the brink of an anti-aging revolution /

The youth pill : scientists at the brink of an anti-aging revolution /

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Author / Creator:Stipp, David.
Imprint:New York : Current, 2010.
Description:x, 308 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Longevity -- Popular works.
Longevity.
Popular works.
Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8146558
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ISBN:9781617230004
1617230006
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:Gauges the current state of science's battle against aging, profiling key contributors and presenting cutting-edge research to examine how a small group of optimistic scientists are developing a drug to extend life.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: The Mouse Study that Roared
  • 1. The Wild Old Wicked Mystery of Aging
  • 2. Radicals Rise Up
  • 3. Hagrid's Bat and the Saber-Toothed Sausage
  • 4. The Genes that Couldn't Be
  • 5. The Really Strange Thing About Dwarfs
  • 6. That Old Magic
  • 7. Cracking the Life-Span Barrier
  • 8. The Great Free Lunch
  • 9. Red Wine's Enigmatic Dirty Drug
  • 10. Rapamycin and the Tale of Tor
  • 11. Sirtris, Master Voyager of the Vortex
  • 12. The George Burns Scenario
  • Notes
Purchased from the Dr. Charles E. Abstein Memorial Fund for the John Crerar Library bookplate
The John Crerar Library bookplate

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