Summer movies usually mean blockbusters. But the new film To Age or Not to Age belongs more in the realm of myth busters. Sidestepping long lines for Inception, I traded in Leonardo DiCaprio for Dr. Leonard Guarente of the Glenn Laboratory for the Science of Aging at MIT, explaining how research is bringing dreams of a fountain of youth closer to reality. Sexy stuff? Well, yes. Wriggling worms and a protracted reproductive cycle aside, I've found scientists more and more sexy (with the exception of my high school chemistry teacher). When what emanates from the gleaming bald pate of Dr. Guarente illuminates the hard science behind staying young, you can feel your pulse quicken. The cast includes a phalanx of scientists, cells, mutant genes, a cameo by a 405-year-old clam that was born the year Hamlet was first...
- 7/26/2010
- by Gerit Quealy
- Huffington Post
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