• Question: why did you choose to research the topic of aging and what is the most interesting thing you have found out so far?

    Asked by ebby to Carolyn, Peter, Richard, Sara on 19 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by jay..., Eviepoo.
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      Sara Falcone answered on 19 Nov 2015:

      Hello guys nice to see you again 🙂

      I didn’t choose ageing, ageing chose me.
      It just happened that I applied fr a scholarship to spend some time in a lab during my master, and I never left. I must say that the whole process is very fascinating especially because I work with mice in a clean enviroment (no bugs whatsover) so their ageing depends only on their genes.

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      Richard Unwin answered on 20 Nov 2015:

      Hi all,

      the topic of ageing is fascinating, and the fact that our population now lives longer brings with it many problems that we need to solve. These include things like dementia, which is a massive issue now but 30 years or so ago there was much less research, but people weren’t living long enough to get it. Its a field where there are lots of opportunities to do some good.

      My most interesting ageing discovery so far is that we’ve found some specific changes in how the brain uses sugar in people with Alzheimer’s disease which is different to how the healthy brain uses it – and regions with more disease burden show a bigger difference. That could give us real clue as to how the disease develops and give us new ways to try and slow or stop it.

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