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AFAR in the News: Seven AFAR Experts Featured in TIME’s special Longevity issue

Seven AFAR experts are featured in several articles TIME Magazine’s February 23 issue focusing on longevity.

Covering the latest scientific discoveries in the field of aging research the story “Aging Disrupters - A Drug from Dirt and some Siamese Mice Have Researchers Inching Towards the Seemingly Impossible: A Cure for Aging” cites 2000 Research Grant Recipient, David Sinclair, Ph.D.; 1985 Research Grant Recipient Richard Miller, M.D., Ph.D.; 1993 Research Grant Recipient, Felipe Sierra, Ph.D.; and two-time Grantee Dena Dubal, M.D., Ph.D.

AFAR’s Scientific Director Steven Austad is a featured “Longevity Guru” in the piece, “Get Your Head in the Game: Cutting-Edge Research is Showing That Your Outlook Can Change How Your Age-At the Cellular Level.”

Providing insight into what can be done to maximize healthy aging, the inforaphic “Stretch Your Timeline” cites 1998 Beeson Scholar Tomas Perls, M.D., M.P.H.

Finally, in “What Diet Helps People Live the Longest?” 1998 Research Grant Recipient and 2013 Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star Award in Aging Research Recipient, Valter Longo, Ph.D. shares nutrition tips from the field.

The issue is on newsstands now. Articles can be viewed online with a subscription to TIME.

AFAR affiliated researchers are regularly sought out by the media as the best and brightest authorizes in the field of aging research. Read highlights of our grantee’s most recent accomplishments here.

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