Author Archives: Vince Giuliano

About Vince Giuliano

Being a follower, connoisseur, and interpreter of longevity research is my latest career, since 2007. I believe I am unique among the researchers and writers in the aging sciences community in one critical respect. That is, I personally practice the anti-aging interventions that I preach and that has kept me healthy, young, active and highly involved at my age, now 93. I am as productive as I was at age 45. I don’t know of anybody else active in that community in my age bracket. In particular, I have focused on the importance of controlling chronic inflammation for healthy aging, and have written a number of articles on that subject in this blog. In 2014, I created a dietary supplement to further this objective. In 2019, two family colleagues and I started up Synergy Bioherbals, a dietary supplement company that is now selling this product. In earlier reincarnations of my career. I was Founding Dean of a graduate school and a full University Professor at the State University of New York, a senior consultant working in a variety of fields at Arthur D. Little, Inc., Chief Scientist and C00 of Mirror Systems, a software company, and an international Internet consultant. I got off the ground with one of the earliest PhD's from Harvard in a field later to become known as computer science. Because there was no academic field of computer science at the time, to get through I had to qualify myself in hard sciences, so my studies focused heavily on quantum physics. In various ways I contributed to the Computer Revolution starting in the 1950s and the Internet Revolution starting in the late 1980s. I am now engaged in doing the same for The Longevity Revolution. I have published something like 200 books and papers as well as over 430 substantive.entries in this blog, and have enjoyed various periods of notoriety. If you do a Google search on Vincent E. Giuliano, most if not all of the entries on the first few pages that come up will be ones relating to me. I have a general writings site at www.vincegiuliano.com and an extensive site of my art at www.giulianoart.com. Please note that I have recently changed my mailbox to vegiuliano@agingsciences.com.

Pythons, cell senescence and telomere torments

Posted on 17. October 2009 by Vince Giuliano

An interesting report came to my attention relating to telomeres in pythons, and this set me off for the umpteenth time pursuing further research and thoughts about cell senescence, telomere lengths and telomerase. I share that all here. First of … Continue reading →

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Big pharma is targeting cancer stem cells

Posted on 17. October 2009 by Vince Giuliano

I have written about cancer stem cells several times in this blog, but many oncologists and cancer researchers still see cancer stem cells mainly as hypothetical entities whose relevance if not very-existence is questionable.  A recent article in Gen points … Continue reading →

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The human liver – a model for organ regeneration?

Posted on 14. October 2009 by Vince Giuliano

This post reviews some key research findings regarding liver regeneration and discusses what is known about the mechanisms involved.   It turns out that a bunch of my favorite blog topics are involved: telomerase, stem/progenitor cells, mTOR signaling, MAPK signaling, NOTCH … Continue reading →

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The Pill – mating, sex, and the kind of kids we were getting

Posted on 12. October 2009 by Vince Giuliano

A research report that appeared a few days ago suggests that birth control pills are having a profound effect on our programmed biological mechanisms for selecting sex partners and for the evolutionary selection of sex and perhaps other human characteristics. … Continue reading →

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“Footprint-free” iPSCs – and a crazy wager offer

Posted on 11. October 2009 by Vince Giuliano

The stream of stem cell research seems to be turning into a river with cascades, waterfalls, whirlpools and even stem-cell treatment resorts.  I comment here on just one small part of the river, which is research on generating induced pluripotent … Continue reading →

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Who is doing gene reprogramming?

Posted on 9. October 2009 by Vince Giuliano

When I first learned about computers in 1950, there were probably less than a three dozen people in the world doing computer programming, and I soon joined their ranks.  At that time, to suggest that computer programming would become an … Continue reading →

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Telomere and telomerase writings

Posted on 7. October 2009 by Vince Giuliano

It is now official; telomerase is really for-real.  A Nobel Prize was just granted to Carol Greider, Elizabeth Blackburn and Jack Szostak, for discovery of the telomerase enzyme 25 years ago.  Greider was a 23-year-old first-year graduate student back then.  … Continue reading →

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Toward a genetic cure for Parkinson’s disease

Posted on 6. October 2009 by Vince Giuliano

A team at the Whitehead Institute has taken a step towards finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease (PD) following an approach similar to but falling short of the approach outlined in my blog post Treating genetic diseases with corrected induced … Continue reading →

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Partner up to keep your wits about you

Posted on 5. October 2009 by Vince Giuliano

Conventional wisdom says that you will live healthier as you reach an advanced age if you live with a partner. A Scandinavian study published in July 2009 confirms that wisdom with respect to cognitive capability. The study, Association between mid-life … Continue reading →

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Single-cell spectrometry and Giuliano’s Law

Posted on 4. October 2009 by Vince Giuliano

Regular readers of this blog are familiar with the crucial importance of signaling molecules and transcription factors in life-related biological processes.  However, traditional mass spectrometry may have difficulty detecting such molecules which are produced in low numbers.  Although mass spectrometry … Continue reading →

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