It will take more work to confirm that these genes are also differentially active in aging people and not just differently aged cell lines, says aging specialist Leonard Guarente of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Whole Foods chain is so smitten with the notion that it has tapped cheese-aging specialists around the world — Hervé Mons in France, Neal's Yard Dairy in England, Guffanti in Italy — to curate its cheeses.
"There's a lot of doubt in the field," notes Joao Passos, a cellular aging specialist at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom who was not involved in the research.
But the future is not necessarily grim for aging women, specialists say.
Camden Town recently produced Flue Faker, to great acclaim (being seasonal, it's all gone now, alas) while Innis and Gunn, the Scottish barrel-ageing specialists, produce Smokin' Gunn, which allies smokiness with a pronounced sweetness.
Recently, NPD looked at the 40 cosmetics that account for 70 percent of sales, and found that in a category it called Age Specialists, there were twice as many products offering results over a period of weeks of regular use versus those offering "instant" results.
With respect to age, specialists in internal medicine in our 1996 sample were slightly underrepresented in the two highest age categories (60 64 years and 65 years and older), but the differences were small.
The world is undergoing a period of rapid technological change which has prompted some Jeremiahs to suggest that in the digital age specialist news channels have had their day.
"Iron Age chariots probably didn't have any safety features – so chariot accidents would potentially have been quite dangerous," said the British Museum's top Iron Age specialist, Dr Julia Farley.
No significant associations were found for age, specialist group or rural background.
Weighted logistic regression analyses examined the effect of covariates: sex, age, specialist residential location, rural background, practice arrangements and specialist group on rural outreach.
