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Albert Einstein College of Medicine associate professor Dr. Ana Maria Cuervo, center, believes protein degradation within cells leads to aging. Cuervo, an expert in the field of protein degradation and of the biology of aging, is flanked by fourth-year graduate students Urmi Bandyopadhyay, left, and Maria Kon. Age-old questions
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 7:28 AM EDT
Researchers strive to unravel mysteries of aging process
By GARY CORSAIR, DAILY SUN
THE VILLAGES — While you golf, play pickleball and line dance, scientists are working to give you more tee times, more serves and more boot scootin’.
At the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Dr. Ana Maria Cuervo is studying how proteins are transported.
Researcher David Sinclair is manipulating cells at Harvard Medical School.
At the University of Sydney School of Medicine, Gustavo Duque is analyzing the effect of Vitamin D on bone and muscle mass.
All three researchers — and dozens of others — are involved in a quest to slow, or halt, the aging process in humans. And, believe it or not, one or more of them may reach that goal in your lifetime.
Scientists already know how we age: Cells deteriorate and DNA changes; therefore, we become more prone to disease and eventually waste away. Now, researchers are fixated on determining why organs and systems slow and stop functioning.
Cuervo and others involved in gerontology (the study of aging) believe they are on the threshold of solving the mystery of why we grow old.
