Rui Zambujal

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Rui Zambujal is a biologist and was born in Lisbon in November 1963. Ever since his teens one of his main interests has been the biology of aging. He makes the following comparison: life is as if we had been given Aladdin's lamp and its three wishes. What should be our first desire? It's to have more wishes, endless wishes. That's what the biology of aging is all about: turning the limited number of wishes we get into a much larger number.

His book "2009-2049: Forty Years on a Roller Coaster" won the Best E-book Award of the 2011 New York Book Festival.

Some of his ideas can be seen at: en.zambujal.com, es.zambujal.com, zambujal.com, Origin-of-aging.blogspot.com , Telomerize.blogspot.com , Origen-del-envejecimiento.blogspot.com , Origem-do-
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Telomerization: NEW POSSIBILITIES

In early May 2011, Professor João Gonçalves, from the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, was in the news because he won a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to investigate a new way to fight AIDS.

The technique proposed by Professor Gonçalves is relatively complex, but what interests us is that it includes a methodology for the transport of large molecules into cells. Now, tr Read more of this blog post »
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Published on November 22, 2011 02:20 Tags: aging, nanoparticles, rui-zambujal, telomerization
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