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Science 28 February 2003:
Vol. 299. no. 5611, pp. 1319 - 1320
DOI: 10.1126/science.1081622
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Books

AGING:
To Sir2, with Love

A review by Daniel Promislow

Ageless Quest One Scientist's Search for Genes That Prolong Youth
Lenny Guarente
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 2002. 164 pp. $19.95. ISBN 0-87969- 652-4.

In this short book targeted at a popular audience, Guarente considers aging a disease and offers a very personal account of "the pursuit of a genetic 'cure' for aging."
The author is in the Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-7223, USA. E-mail: Promislow{at}uga.edu

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