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Johnston will focus his efforts as president on information technology and on strengthening Harvard's relationship to the international community, he said in a recent phone interview from his office at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec...
...what would make you unique as you lived your unexceptional life would be how long you got to live it. Nematodes in Hekimi's laboratory at Montreal's McGill University have been known to survive for 50 days. Nematodes outside the lab survive for barely nine. A human being this long-lived would be 420 years...
...even as Harley begins his search, other genes implicated in aging have already been flushed out of hiding. At McGill University, Hekimi's long-lived nematodes have helped expose a few of them. Hekimi created his little uberworms by crossing and recrossing individuals that lived longer naturally, slowly extending the life-spans of later generations. He then searched the animals' chromosomes until he found the mutated gene responsible, a gene he dubbed Clock-1. "The Clock-1 gene is critical in setting life-span," Hekimi says. "More important, with cloning and genetic mapping, we were able to determine just which...
...been in the administrative sector for many years, and he's proven himself," said Jack P. Antel, the chair of the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University, a position Martin held in the 1970s...
BORN: Sept. 11, 1932, Mobile EDUCATION: McGill High School, graduated, 1950 FAMILY: Wife, Karen; five children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: Navy, 1952-54 OCCUPATION: Moving-and-storage-company executive POLITICAL CAREER: Alabama House, 1971-79, Senate, 1979-83; sought Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor, 1982; U.S. House, 1984- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 7641, Mobile...