Quest for Agelessness at MIT

This is an old one, but one of my favorites. Dr. Guarente has not only made some of the most important discoveries involving fundamental processes such as gene expression, but he was the first to examine the genetics of lifespan. He has identified a family of genes that when upregulated can extend the life span of almost every organism up to 30-40%. BTW, we too have those genes, and a company up in Cambridge MA is now moving forward to develop molecules that can activate them. Dr. Guarente's work is truly at a crossroads of science and sci-fi: FiB2