The role of mtDNA mutations in the aging process has been debatable for decades since Harmanís seminal work on mitochondria, oxidative stress and aging. Currently more than ever the field is plentiful in evidence both in favor and against an involvement of mtDNA mutations in aging, which have led recently to much controversy. For example,...
Senior and New Scholars Awards for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Dr. Konstantin Khrapko
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
2010 senior Scholar Award in aging
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Dr. Zoltan Arany
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
2010 new Scholar Award in aging
Ischemic disease of heart, brain, or limbs is almost a sine qua non of advanced age. Most people in the developed world eventually die from ischemic causes. Ischemic tissues can create new blood vessels (angiogenesis), in an attempt to recruit more oxygen and nutrients. That response, however, declines profoundly with age. Why this is so remains...
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Dr. Ary L. Goldberger
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
2005 senior Scholar Award in aging
Time asymmetry (irreversibility), also referred to as the ìarrow of time,î is a fundamental property of systems that operate far from equilibrium. The emergence of such nonequilibrium dynamics-- essential for life--requires the expenditure of energy and leads to irreversible changes.
Up to the present, quantifying the time... |
Dr. David Q.H. Wang
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
1999 new Scholar Award in aging
Cholesterol gallstone disease occurs rarely in childhood and adolescence. As epidemiological observations have suggested and as clinical studies have confirmed, the prevalence of cholesterol gallstone disease increases linearly with advancing age and approaches 50% at age 80. Elderly individuals are at high risk for developing gallstone... |
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