http://www.genescient.com Genescient Corporation's Web Site Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:33:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Irvine, CA, December 17, 2009 -- Genescient Corporation, a California genomic-health biotechnology company, received $500,000 in new angel investment, to help commercialize the company's technology and to fund further research. The investment was made by private investors with an interest in the rapidly growing field of nutrigenomics, based on the science ... http://www.genescient.com/genescient-receives-additional-angel-funding/ Irvine, CA, August 24, 2009 -- Gregory Benford, Chairman of the Board of Genescient Corporation, will speak at the Singularity Summit 09. The Singularity Summit is a gathering of visionaries in business, science, technology, design, and the arts, coming together to explore the rising impact of science and technology ... http://www.genescient.com/genescient-chairman-to-speak-at-singularity-summit-2009/   Genescient study suggests that, when long-term effects are considered, two commonly ingested stimulants are not created equal. The study compares the effects of two stimulants and two sedatives. Irvine, CA, August 19, 2009 – What long-term effect does your daily cup of “morning Joe” have on your body?  In a ... http://www.genescient.com/caffeine-cuts-male-mating-success/ Aging is not simply an accumulation of damage or inappropriate higher-order signaling.  Aging occurs because of the extensive absence of adaptive genomic information required for survival to later adult ages. Michael R. Rose from the May 2009 issue, of the Impact Journal on Aging Research (published online May 21, 2009) Abstract [caption id="" align="alignleft" ... http://www.genescient.com/adaptation-aging-and-genomic-information/ Genescient Corporation and Kronos Science Laboratory will work together to analyze the Kronos Alzheimer's Case-Control Database, considered to be the finest Alzheimer's Disease genetic data set in the US. The companies hope to identify genes previously unrecognized genes that are involved in Alzheimer's Disease. [caption id="attachment_212" align="alignleft" width="167" caption="PET scan of ... http://www.genescient.com/genescient-and-kronos-announce-alzheimers-disease-collaboration/ Evolutionary  biology  provides  the  only  cogent,  formally developed, and experimentally corroborated theory for biological ageing. In this essay, we supply a brisk run through the highlights of evolutionary research on the biology of ageing.   MICHAEL R. ROSE, MOLLY K. BURKE, PARVIN SHAHRESTANI and LAURENCE D. MUELLER Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, ... http://www.genescient.com/evolution-of-ageing-since-darwin/ Through selective breeding, Dr. Rose was able to create a long-lived line of creatures he called Methuselah flies. He then put his research into reverse and developed flies with much shortened life spans. A Conversation With Michael R. Rose By Claudia Dreifus December 6, 2005 Excerpt from the December 6, 2005 issue of The ... http://www.genescient.com/live-longer-with-evolution-evidence-may-lie-in-fruit-flies/ Some seriously weird things are springing out of the twisted tangle of our DNA. by Jerold M. Lowenstein Excerpt from the December 1992 issue, of Discover Magazine (published online December 1, 1992) . . . Alternatively, some other newfound oddities, the Methuselah genes, may lengthen the lives of their carriers. The genes ... http://www.genescient.com/genetic-surprises/