Live Long and Adjudicate
Is a Longevity Vaccine on the Way?
It's your routine visit to the doctor in 2020. There's the blood pressure check, the standard vision tests, and, oh yes, your anti-aging shot.Such a possibility -- an injection of a hormone to extend life -- has come a little closer to reality with the release of a new report that found that a hormone made by a gene called Klotho suppresses aging in mice.
It's a long way from here to there, said Dr. Makoto Kuro-o, lead author of the paper on the mouse study that appears Thursday in the online edition of the journal Science. But humans do have an almost identical version of the Klotho gene that is carried by mice, and "some studies show that variations of the Klotho gene are associated with extended life in humans," Kuro-o said.
WASHINGTON, D.C., Mar. 11, 2136 - Chief Justice Antonin Scalia today celebrated his 200th birthday amid family and friends. Speaking at the Kennedy Center auditorum, the chief justice thanked God and the pharmaceutical industry for his long life and reminisced about his years on the court -- 150 come September.
