Pui Yee Ng works in Sirtris’s chemistry lab. Drugs in the Cambridge biotechnology company’s pipeline are aimed at treating diseases associated with aging.(Courtesy of Sirtris And David Shopper Photography
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Age-old woes, new tactic
By focusing on key diseases, researchers seek to learn how we can live longer
Pui Yee Ng works in Sirtris’s chemistry lab. Drugs in the Cambridge biotechnology company’s pipeline are aimed at treating diseases associated with aging.(Courtesy of Sirtris And David Shopper Photography
)
When MIT biology professor Leonard Guarente started looking for the Fountain of Youth through his microscope more than a decade ago, compatriots were hard to come by. (Full article: 877 words)
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