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November 08, 2003
Forever Young Research
FuturePundit has an interesting entry on a drive to raise half a billion dollars for anti-aging research. He has some very interesting comments on the feasability of this research.
Research being done on Huntington's Disease would be (directly or indirectly) a key part of anti-aging research.
HD research has been studying the inner workings of neural cells learning what the various proteins and enzymes are doing in the lifecycle of the cells. The huntingtin protein seems to play a key roll in maintaining cell functions and much of the research geared toward treating Huntington's involves strategies toward prolong cell life.
The punch line:
"we don't really need to understand everything that goes wrong in aging. We just need to to be able to fix it." Sounds just like what is being done in HD research. These two research communities can definitely help each other.
Posted by Dave at November 8, 2003 09:54 PM
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