This is a good summary of David Sinclair’s work (purchased by GlaxoSmithKline) in Forbes Magazine.
“Glaxo has concocted sirtuin boosters far more potent than resveratrol. Among other effects, the compounds lower blood sugar, and Glaxo is testing them to treat diabetes. But preliminary lab experiments suggest that sirtuins could have a role in everything [...]

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America’s winemakers have won a victory for online wine sales in Kansas, but the legislative battle demonstrates the challenges that e-commerce, a key force for economic recovery, still faces from outdated thinking and entrenched political institutions.
Signed into law in April, 2009, Kansas Senate Bill 212 allows direct-to-consumer (DTC) wine shipments over the Web for state [...]

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From the Independent:
“Researchers have developed a technique to create genetically modified monkeys that suffer from human illnesses. … The “transgenic” monkeys were created by inserting a gene from a jellyfish into their embryos to make them glow under ultraviolet light – a standard test to see if the technique worked. When the monkeys became adults [...]

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Interesting op-ed from the LAT by Marion Roach. Most relevant graph:
“When he campaigned, Obama said he supported the “therapeutic cloning of stem cells.” But as president, he has already traded that position for one that some see as more politically realistic. Under the compromise plan, the president proposed that federal dollars be allowed to [...]

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Some diabetics could forgo self-injected shots for several months or even years by treating their diabetes with stem cells from their own blood. Here’s the story at Voice of America and at SU.

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From The Week (a magazine I love):
Men can make sperm until they die, but women are born with a finite number of eggs in their ovaries—or so scientists have long believed. But a new study by Chinese scientists has found that with some hormonal stimulation, female mice can make new eggs late in life—opening the [...]

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From the FT. The number was 15%, but has gone up with the recession.

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Here’s a detailed chart with the answer from the Economist. Japan, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and France are at the top.

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From the BBC:
“US scientists say they have successfully reversed the effects of Alzheimer’s with experimental drugs. The drugs target and boost the function of a newly pinpointed gene involved in the brain’s memory formation.
In mice, the treatment helped restore long-term memory and improve learning for new tasks, Nature reports. “

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Here’s an informative article from h+ magazine on how the FDA currently argues that culturing adult stem cells amounts to the creation of a new drug. This of course would mean long time lags for getting stem cell procedures approved, which has prompted the creation of at least two groups: the American Stem Cell [...]

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Voters are still reeling from tax day in a tough recession, and taking to the streets in protest, but state governments and their allies aren’t listening. In fact, they are gearing up to squeeze more money out of the nation’s workers. Their target is online shopping, and if the pro-tax coalition gets its way, embattled [...]

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