On resveratrol and the beautiful mindset of Michael Faraday — Part 1
In recent months, life-science blogs and journals have pulsated with negative vibes about resveratrol, the red-wine ingredient reported to show anti-aging effects in various animal species. The bad...
View ArticleOn resveratrol and the beautiful mindset of Michael Faraday — Part 2
If I’m conversant with apparently sound research that conflicts with the Sinclair/Sirtris take on resveratrol and sirtuins, you might ask, why haven’t I joined the skeptics who dismiss that take as a...
View ArticleTwo new twists on resveratrol
A couple of significant developments in the resveratrol story occurred this week, but so far the media has focused only on the less important one of the two. I’ll get to the truly important news in a...
View ArticleYet another twist on sirtuins—with leaping ant queens
It’s not often that 33 scientists jointly pen a public complaint that an article in Science got things wrong. But in this week’s issue of Science nearly three dozen researchers working on sirtuins, the...
View ArticleSirtuin News For Mammals
The negative buzz about sirtuins recently grew louder when Science ran a lengthy news piece on Dec. 2 titled, “Aging Genes: The Sirtuin Story Unravels.” The article played up studies in lower organisms...
View ArticleResveratrol Controversy Clarified
Longstanding questions about how the red-wine ingredient resveratrol works at the molecular level have been answered by Harvard’s David Sinclair and colleagues in a paper that just appeared in Science....
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