How a scientist who studies ‘super agers’ exercises for a longer life - 3 Quarks Daily

At the age of 14, when most teenagers begin to walk the way of high school, Laurent Simons, with an IQ of 145, already passes through the corridors of some of the most prestigious research centers in the world. His goal is not a medal or a diploma: it is to prolong human life. In childhood he dreamed of creating artificial organs to replace those that fail, and today, that idea remains intact. His story, however, is not only made of academic rec…

How a scientist who studies ‘super agers’ exercises for a longer life - 3 Quarks Daily

Gretchen Reynolds in The Washington Post: Seventeen years ago, Eric Topol, a cardiologist and founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, set out to discover why some people age so well, when others don’t. Aged 53 at the time, Topol considered healthy aging to be of deep scientific — and personal — interest. He also suspected the answer was genetic. So, with colleagues, he spent more than s…