Ageless Quest is a personal, sometimes controversial, account of the pursuit of a genetic "cure" for aging by an expert in the field. The author is the Novartis Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Aging has always been regarded as a highly complex process withmany degenerative changes leading to the cessation of life. But recent research has identified a relatively simple mechanism that governs the pace of aging. Lenny Guarente's Ageless Quest is a scientific detective story for the baby boom generation. It offers an insider's view of an area ofpotentially astonishing high reward - and equally high risk. | Ageless Quest by Leonard Guarente, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters