Cells, Aging, and Human Disease

We’re going to take an odd detour into both chaos theory and traffic flow in order to understand Alzheimer’s disease, so fasten your seatbelt. The key cascade of pathology that we’re going to look at (and explain) is the presence of beta amyloid plaques in patients with Alzheimer’s, but the principle applies equally to tau […]

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§263 · October 30, 2015 · Alzheimer's disease · (No comments) · Tags: ,


The other day, a friend of mine, Liz Parrish, the CEO and founder of BioViva, made quite a splash when she injected herself with a viral vector containing genes for both telomerase and FST. Those in favor of what Liz did applaud her for her courage and her ability to move quickly and effectively in […]

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§260 · October 17, 2015 · BioViva, Telocyte · (No comments) · Tags: ,