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Aaron Saenz at Singularity Hub writes a thoughtful review of 100+: What would you do with another 75 years on this Earth? Not as a pain wracked wizened elder in a nursing home, but as a vibrant super-centenarian with the

This is an excellent article from the NYT about how gene therapy has been used to kill cancer. Dr. Carl June at U Penn is really a leader in this field.

I spoke at the Economist’s Human Potential conference yesterday and Andrew Nusca from SmartPlanet.com wrote an excellent blog summary about it today.

Here’s my interview with Glenn Reynolds on his InstaVision show. Internet TV is really taking off, and Glenn’s show is one of the best political/topic-based ones out there.

100 Plus is on the Washington Post’s bestseller list this week (#8)! Very exciting! Hopefully, the more people who read the book, the more we will all realize the importance of research on biological aging and human repair.

Nick Schulz reviewed 100 Plus in the WSJ today. He says that the book “entertainingly chronicles efforts to conquer aging and death from antiquity to today.” Read the whole review here.

The Wall Street Journal published an excerpt of 100 Plus today, accompanied by a video (embedded below). Reading it is a good way to discover if you’ll like the entire book.

Below are the blurbs from the back cover of the book and here is a link to Amazon.com where you can see reviews from others who have read 100 Plus. “At a time when companies think only of quarterly results

Here’s a video about my new book, 100 Plus:

Researchers funded by the UK-based Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have discovered a new mechanism controlling ageing in white blood cells. The research, published in the September issue of the Journal of Immunology, opens up the possibility of