11/25/2015 – Can Scientists Slow Down Aging?

Dr. Nir Barzilai, director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, believes he’s found a way to do just that: to mirror the slow aging of the centenarians he has studied using a drug shown to have an anti-aging effect in some animals. In answer to skeptics who bristle at the thought of another “anti-aging charlatan” selling an elixir, Barzilai is quick to insist that this is hard science, not quackery or some mad chase for the fountain of youth.

Read the full article at Next Avenue.