Calico, which stands for California Life Company, wants to "cure" ageing.
The address was for a company called Halcyon Molecular, which wants to cure aging.
He plunged into gloom for a few weeks, then decided to put "cure aging" at the top of his list.
"To pick out one particular phenomenon of telomere length as a key determinant of ageing and say that if you're going to lengthen telomeres you're magically going to cure ageing, I think that's fanciful".
"If you could cure aging, that would change all sorts of things that are now constrained".
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During the last decade, the research on the processes of human aging and tumour formation has grown considerably in order to prevent or halt the progression of aging and cure age-associated diseases and cancer.
This study again highlights the relevance of Sir2 for aging processes and its potential as a pharmacological target to cure age-related diseases.
This study provides additional independent evidence for the concept of Sir2 as a longevity gene and as a promising pharmacological target to cure age-related diseases.
Due to the apparent evolutionarily conserved effect of Sir2/S irt1 on health and ageing, the physiological functions and protein targets of the enzyme have been intensively studied in mammals in order to cure age-related diseases.
