Saturday, August 26, 2006

Ageless Quest


I was reading the new book I got from Dr. Titorenko . Actually it was really intersting , and I was so fascinated like the time I started reading the science fiction ones . finding the mechanisms of aging as a multifactorial phenomenon is in the center of attention in this book . the way inwhich the book was written makes you feel like you are reading a story which starts up with the fact that there might be some genes controling the varities of reactions or mechanisms which ends up with the senescens of each cell .the story continues with the other queries going on this matter in different labs around the world . the way the Sir2 genes affect the aging process in this fungus is quite a bit different but the fact that the a specific orthologs of this gene in c.elegans or later on in mammalian cells control not exactly the same but more likely similar mechanisms is really interesting . recent researches have shown that this gene also involves in cell apoptosis determination that can also be related to the rate of cancer . anyway I really advise you to take a look at this book .It is worth it !