First, does caloric restriction extend life span in the primates?
TR: So you don't want to extend life span.
A controversial biologist at Harvard claims he can extend life span and treat diseases of aging.
"We have treatments now that extend life span, but nothing extends our reproductive span".
If you can extend health span, and you also happen to extend life span, so be it.
This, along with other recent evidence, could provide clues towards potential therapeutic intervention to extend life span in humans.
Biogerontology has traditionally focused on demographic senescence by searching for environmental manipulations and genes that extend life span.
"In mice, calorie restriction doesn't just extend life span," said Leonard P. Guarente, professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
While an anti-aging pill may be the next big blockbuster, some ethicists believe that the all-out determination to extend life span is veined with arrogance.
Rapamycin has nothing to do with caloric restriction, so far as is known, but the study provided striking proof that a chemical can extend life span.
Berdichevsky, A., Viswanathan, M., Horvitz, H. R. & Guarente, L. C. elegans SIR-2.1 interacts with 14-3-3 14-3-3 14-3-3ctivate DAF-16 and extend life sproteins
