I could have picked any specialty years ago after I passed the residency exam, but I chose geriatrics to the shock of everyone. I wanted to have the specialty with the wisest patients and even if I’m not practicing it anymore for reasons I’ll detail below, I don’t regret anything. It was impossible for elderly…… Continue reading Career choice, early retirement and longevity
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How to engineer negligible senescence in humans – part IV GlycoSENS
Have you ever started from one of these: and obtained these? This is exactly what happens in our bodies as we age, the only difference being that it takes place in decades instead of hours. Chemically it is called the Maillard reaction. What are extracellular crosslinks and how do they form? We burn slowly and…… Continue reading How to engineer negligible senescence in humans – part IV GlycoSENS
How to engineer negligible senescence in humans – part I MitoSENS
Many engineering graduates leave the field for alternative careers, but what they don’t leave is the confidence that any problem has a solution, even if it wasn’t found yet and even if one does not understand all the details. This is the reason for which one engineer changed gerontology – his name is Aubrey de…… Continue reading How to engineer negligible senescence in humans – part I MitoSENS