Ageless Quest: One Scientist's Search for the Genes That Prolong Youth (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780879696528)

Ageless Quest is a personal, sometimes controversial, account of the pursuit of a genetic 'cure' for aging by an expert in the field. The author is the Novartis Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Aging has always been regarded as a highly complex process with many degenerative changes leading to the cessation of life. But recent research has identified a relatively simple mechanism that governs the pace of aging. Lenny Guarente's Ageless Quest is a scientific detective story for the baby boom generation. It offers an insider's view of an area of potentially astonishing high reward--and equally high risk.

Author: Leonard Guarente
ISBN-10: 0879696524
ISBN-13: 9780879696528
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Language: English
Published: 12/03/2002
Pages: 154
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.34h x 5.70w x 0.76d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/06/2003 pg. 52