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...GULUS EMREHe’s a Harvard grad with an M.D., a Master of Philosophy, and a certification in clinical hypnotherapy. But Alex Benzer ’93, author of “The Tao of Dating for Men” and “The Tao of Dating for Women”, just wants to help you find “the middle path.” FM chatted with Benzer about dating, dropping the H-bomb, and picking up the phone for Mom mid-makeout. 1. Fifteen Minutes: What compelled you to write your books and articles about...
Back when scientists largely backed nurture in the nature-vs.-nurture debate, biologist Seymour Benzer found otherwise, paving the way for modern neurogenetics and discoveries in the treatment of Alzheimer's and other diseases. Inspired by the wildly different personalities of his two daughters, he found that fruit flies slept and acted differently when injected with the genes of other fruit flies--research that won him the U.S.'s richest science award, the Albany Medical Center Prize. Benzer...
...there really is a clock of clocks, and maybe, just maybe, 21st century biologists will figure out how to twiddle and reset the hands. They might concoct Methuselah pills or inject Methuselah genes into fertilized eggs and fool our mortal bodies into believing that we are forever young. "Perhaps," Benzer muses, "aging can be better described not as a clock but as a scenario, which we can hope to edit." If we died in old age at the same rate we die between ages 10 and 15, then most of us in the U.S. would live 1,200 years...
After more than 50 years in the laboratory, Benzer has too much respect for life's complexities to believe in quick cures or fountains of youth. He often works through the night on his mutant Methuselah. He feels that aging should now be studied as a disease, and he would love to spend his next career, he says, "unraveling the facts." But he hates to see the study of longevity being overblown by the press. "I hope the hype will not result in the same letdown as Nixon's all-out war on cancer." Even if there is a central...
...youth and the postponement of old age may become one of the greatest enterprises of the 21st century. "I see it as inevitable," says evolutionary biologist Michael Rose, who breeds strains of long-lived flies in his laboratory at the University of California at Irvine. "I'm confident that Benzer's work--and the worm people's and maybe my work--will someday be used by a bunch of avaricious corporations who'll make billions of dollars a la Microsoft by giving people what they've always wanted...