Welcome to another episode of the DeSci Podcast. In this episode, Vera Gorbunova, endowed Professor of Biology at the University of Rochester, co-director of the Rochester Aging Research Center, and co-founder of the new journal Aging Biology, run by scientists for scientists, shares with us a bit of her vast knowledge in the field of Longevity. She talked about the problems of the current scientific system, the partnership that her laboratory made with VitaDAO, and about the research that she is currently carrying out.  

Navigate through the topics discussed in this podcast using the timestamps below.

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Timestamps: 

0:42 Intro
2:53 Vera's Life Story & Background
7:44 Comparative Longevity Approach
14:12 Serendipitous Discoveries
15:34 DNA Repairing Fidelity & Epigenetics Reprogramming
24:46 Who are the heroes of Vera
27:09 What Vera strongly believes and that other people disagree
32:28 Possible Nobel Prize-winning work
35:14 Chromatin: Hallmark of Aging
39:25 HSC Stem Cells  
45:20 Extracellular Matrix
50:12 VitaDAO x Vera’s Lab Partnership on Naked Mole Rats
1:00:26 Programmed vs Damage Theory of Aging
1:11:07 Issues between Scientific Journal Publishers, Editors and Reviewers
1:17:42 Potential of Decentralized Scientific Journals & Peer-review
1:32:18 Final Conclusions  

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Special thanks to:  

Sebastian Brunemeier (Host): https://twitter.com/sebastian_gero  
Vera: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vera-gorbunova-64a97b46/  

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