S. Jay Olshansky, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago's School of Public Health, is an author of The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging. He, Daniel Perry, executive director of the Alliance for Aging Research, Richard Miller, professor of pathology at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Robert Butler, founding director of the National Institute on Aging, call for an extension of healthy life in In Pursuit of the Longevity Dividend. "We're not proposing that we should live for 500 years, or 1,000 years, or become immortal," says Olshansky. "We're proposing a modest but achievable sevenyear delay."
Marc Vidal, director of the Center for Cancer Systems Biology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, describes his and colleagues' efforts to create a "serious map" of the human interactome, "a complete set of macromolecular interactions in the cell," in Time for a Human Interactome Project?. He ...
