The DeSci Podcast

Vera Gorbunova on Longevity, Aging Biology and DeSci (Decentralized Science)

Feb 7, 2023

01:43:00

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04:21

Extracellular Matrix Is Fascinating

02:07

How to Increase Chyluronone Production Without Using Gene Therapy

02:08

Introduction

3min

Is There a Career in Biology?

5min

The Comparative Longevity Approach

5min

Is Directed Evolution a Good Idea?

2min

The Importance of DNA Repair Along Jovar

4min

Is There a Lead Indication for DNA Repair?

3min

Drugs for HIV Transposons?

3min

Who Are Your Heroes in the Field?

2min

Do You Believe That People Shouldn't Be Listening to Music While Working at the Law?

3min

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Is Telomerase an on-Engine?

3min

11.

The Mechanism of Tumor Suspression

2min

12.

Putting Transposons in Heterochromancy

2min

13.

Is It the Case That Genes Are Being Expressed?

2min

14.

Is There a Loss of Methylation in HSCs?

3min

15.

Is Vitamin C the Primary Driver of Atherosclerosis?

4min

16.

Extracellular Matrix Is Fascinating

2min

17.

The Cancer Link, You've Done It Before?

3min

18.

The Partnership Between Vita Dow and Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

4min

19.

How to Increase Chyluronone Production Without Using Gene Therapy

2min

20.

Is There a New Spin-Out Matrix Bio?

3min

21.

Is It a Program or a Damage Repair?

4min

22.

Hypothalamic Stem Cell Loss Can Accelerate Aging

4min

23.

Hormones and Longevity

3min

24.

Changing Gears in Scientific Publishing

2min

25.

The Status Quo of Scientific Publishing

5min

26.

The Decentralized Science Movement

4min

27.

How to Improve the Microeconomics of Biomedical Research and Biotechnology

3min

28.

The Peer Review System Is Broken at Many Levels

3min

29.

How to Open Source Software Development for Aging Biology and Journal

4min

30.

Taking Back the Power in the Intellectual Property World

4min

31.

CEL2 and 6 Activator

2min

32.

Gene Expression of Sertune 6 in Super Centenarians

4min

33.

You Know I'm Going to Nomininate You for a Nobel Prize

2min

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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Let's connect:

Website: https://bit.ly/3d6nh2C
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Molecule_dao
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/moleculedao

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The DeSci Podcast

Vera Gorbunova on Longevity, Aging Biology and DeSci (Decentralized Science)

Hypothalamic Stem Cell Loss Can Accelerate Aging

Extracellular Matrix Is Fascinating

How to Increase Chyluronone Production Without Using Gene Therapy

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