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Patents -
Title: Method and composition
for ameliorating the adverse effects of aging.
Inventor: Suresh
I. S. Rattan
Based on my research on the anti-aging effects of
Kinetin (and other N6-modified
purines with cytokinin activity, such as zeatin),
international patents have
been granted from several countries, including United States, Canada
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, Denmark, EPC
Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland,
Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New
Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Venezuela...
For further details and for getting
commercial license etc, please contact
SENETEK PLC.
Title: Immortalized stem cells
(patents applied for in Denmark, Europe
and USA)
for details:see our paper on
telomerase-mediated immortalization of human bone marrow stem cells, by
Simonsen et al, Nature Biotechnology, June 2002)
Inventors: Moustapha Kassem, Thomas Jensen & Suresh I.
S. Rattan
Book reviews
(my short reviews of some interesting books that
have been published in various journals)
Towards Scientific Literacy
Magic Universe: A Grand
Tour of Modern Science
by Nigel Calder
Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK,
768 pp, $25/£17
ISBN 0192806696
Published in EMBO Reports, volume 7,
issue 5, pp. 477, 2006.
Reclaiming biology
The Triple Helix.
Gene, Organism, and Environment.
by Richard
Lewontin, Harvard
University Press, Cambridge, MA.136 pages, US$ 27.50; UK£ 15.50,
ISBN 0-674-00159-1
Published in: EMBO
Reports, vol 1, no. 6, 2000.
Colours of development
The Art of Genes. How
Organisms Make Themselves
by Enrico Coen
Oxford
University Press, Oxford, UK, 386 pages; UK£ 20.00
ISBN 019 850343 1
Published in: EMBO Reports, vol. 2, no.
6, 2001.
 
Should we fear
the future?
Our Posthuman
Nature: Consequences of the Biotechnology
Revolution
by Francis
Fukuyama Profile Books, London, UK
256 pages, $28.40, ISBN 1 86197 297 0;
and
Redesigning Humans: Choosing Our
Children’s Genes
by Gregory Stock,
Profile Books, London, UK, 277 pages,
$28.40,
ISBN 1 86197 242 3
A double book review, published in: EMBO
Reports, vol. 3, no. 10, 2002.
Algorithmic life
The Delphic Boat: What Genomes Tell Us
by Antoine Danchin; translated by Alison
Quayle, Harvard University Press, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA
368 pages, US $24.50, ISBN 0 674 00930 4
Published in: EMBO Reports, vol.
4, no. 7, 2003.
Preparing for
eternity
Coping with
Methuselah: The Impact of Molecular Biology
on Medicine and Society
by Henry J.
Aaron and William B. Schwartz (eds),
Brookings Institution Press, Washington,
DC, USA
296 pages,
$20/£15 ISBN 0815700393
Published in: EMBO Reports, vo. 5, no. 6,
2004.
Virtual immortality
A Clone of Your Own?
Ethics of Cloning
by Arlene Judith Klotzko,
Oxford University Press, 162 pages, £13,
ISBN 0192803093
Published in: EMBO Reports, vol. 5, issue 4,
2004.
Scientists and human
beings
Leaps in the Dark: The Making of Scientific
Reputations
by John Waller, Oxford University Press, New York,
NY, USA 292 pages, $25/£19,
ISBN 0192804847
Published in: EMBO
Reports, vol. 6, no. 3, 2005.
The
mitochondrial free radical theory of aging
By Aubrey
D.N.J. de Grey, R.G. Landes Company, Austin,
Texas, USA, 212 pp, 1999, ISBN 1-57059-
564-X, price not
stated.
Published in: Biogerontology, vol.
1, 2000.
Critical Reviews
of Oxidative Stress and Aging: Advances in Basic
Science, Diagnostics and
Intervention
Editors:
Richard G. Cutler and Henry Rodrigues, World
Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 2003,
1523 pp, in two
volumes; hard back, price USD 185; ISBN
981-02-4636-6 (for the set).
Published in: Biogerontology, vol. 4,
2003.
The
neuroendocrine immune network in ageing, Editors: Rainer H. Straub and
Eugenio Mocchegiani, Elsevier, 2004, 441 pp,
hard back, price USD/EUR 180; ISBN 0444516174.
Published in: Biogerontology, vol. 6,
2005.
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