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	A Longer, Better Life

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5-7-2007 6:45 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/62b26abf-04ab-47e7-a4ce-2657b8b305fb/D65C36F3-D1E4-4E30-AA8A-A955C405338A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://postbiota.org/pipermail/tt/2007-May/000469.html" href="http://postbiota.org/pipermail/tt/2007-May/000469.html" style="font-size: 11px;">postbiota.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://postbiota.org/pipermail/tt/2007-May/000469.html">Sara Davidson talks to two medical scientists about how the body
ages and the research on trying to extend our healthy life span.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://postbiota.org/pipermail/tt/2007-May/000469.html">Dr. GUARENTE, scientists like J. Craig Venter, one of the first to
map the human genome, feel that increasing life span should not be
the goal of science. Why are you attempting to prolong life?
LENNY GUARENTE: The research that Im involved in is not about
extending life after people are infirm. I dont think of life span as
the gold standard. The gold standard is health span. All the
indicators from the laboratory are that the genes were studying and
the kinds of drugs we would be developing would extend health span.
If you can extend health span, and you also happen to extend life
span, so be it. Thats a side benefit</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://postbiota.org/pipermail/tt/2007-May/000469.html">That told us that this type of gene is performing an antiaging
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