Monthly Archives: June 2011

By Victor Protein kinases are enzymes which transfer phosphate groups from donors such as ATP to proteins in a process call “phosphorylation”. This process is usually reversible; phosphatases are the enzymes which “dephosphorylate” or remove phosphate groups from proteins. Each … Continue reading →

By Vince Giuliano This blog entry is about somatic stem cells, the natural kind that reside in adult bodies, the factors that affect their health and longevity, the changes they undergo in the process of aging, and the roles they … Continue reading →

By Vince Giuliano The last seven months have seen a great deal of research related to and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and cell reprogramming. This blog post is devoted to some important perspectives that have emerged resulting from that … Continue reading →

The last three weeks has seen a series of blog problems and a hiatus of new postings.  Now the last of these problems are being straightened out and I and my colleague Victor are getting back to serious writing. Here … Continue reading →

By Vince – admin Our blog has been under a massive robot spam comment attack over the last four days.  We received, I estimate, 500 comments and all but a few were spam.  These inundated my personal mail and attached … Continue reading →

From Vince, Admin After we switched to the new blog software, many past blog entries show up with strange interspersed characters such as at the end of sentences and †where an apostrophe (‘) should be.  Although these symbols are … Continue reading →

From Vince, Admin This blog has been receiving a great many spam comments recently.  I deleted a dozen last night alone and there are a dozen new ones now.  I suspect that we are being targeted by a spam company. … Continue reading →

We have been having trouble with the blog software for the last few months – our blog was too big for it with 365 posts and 969 comments.  Our hosting company has provided us with a new dedicated WordPress software … Continue reading →

By Victor One of the paradoxes of longevity research has been the observation that persons of exceptional longevity actually have more disease-related genes in their genome than ordinary people.  Intuitively, one would expect just the opposite, that the lack of … Continue reading →