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...years we live in good health, with high energy, strength and mobility, and with vigorous mental, sensory and sexual powers," Johnson says. He points to the readily observable fact that at a college reunion, some people have aged more than others: "You do not need to be a molecular biologist to conclude that something (or some things) other than simply the passage of time determines the rate at which we age." And it's not simply a matter of genes, says the author. Johnson prescribes a regimen of supplements, hormones, vitamins and antioxidants in addition to dietary guidelines, exercise...
...auction last month, Pocket Books won the rights to Kept in the Dark: The Killer Connection Between Sleep and Food. The advance was just north of $200,000, a surprisingly hefty sum for a nonfiction book by two unknowns (T.S. Wiley, a medical researcher, and Bent Formby, a cell biologist...
...motion--lecturing in Europe, raising money on Wall Street, opening satellite centers in California. The closest he comes to relaxing is sailing on his 82-ft. sloop, the Sorcerer. Even that's a challenge. "He seldom goes for a day sail," says his wife Claire Fraser, a noted molecular biologist. "When he goes sailing, he's got to cross oceans...
...that parents know that the technology is available, and that at least some clinics will let them choose a child's gender for nonmedical reasons, it may be too late to go back. In a relatively short time, suggests Princeton University biologist Lee Silver, whose book Remaking Eden addresses precisely these sorts of issues, sex selection may cease to be much of an issue. His model is in vitro fertilization, the technique used to make "test-tube" babies. "When the world first learned about IVF two decades ago," he says, "it was horrifying to most people, and most said that...
Interest in eugenics grew with the rediscovery and wide dissemination of an obscure Austrian monk's experiments in breeding peas. Gregor Mendel's discovery of genetically transmitted dominant and recessive traits seemed to many the key that would unlock the mysteries of human heredity. In the U.S., biologist Charles Davenport (1866-1944) established, with the help of a $10 million endowment from the Carnegie Institution, a center for research in human evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. A strict Mendelian, Davenport believed so-called single-unit genes determined such traits as alcoholism and feeblemindedness. The way to eradicate such failings...