AGELESS QUEST: One Scientist's Search for Genes that Prolong Youth
Leonard Guarente, Lenny Guarente, . . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, $19.95 (168pp) ISBN 978-0-87969-652-8
Science can be like sausage—sure, you like it, but you're better off not knowing how it's made. But with the arrival this year of a number of tell-all science memoirs, readers can't help but take a peek, deriving a certain lurid thrill. Given the potentially explosive subject matter, one would expect Guarente's account of his pursuit of a genetic "cure" for aging to dish up controversy, but it doesn't. Rather, this slim book delivers pure work-a-day science, without any insider dramatics. Guarente, a biologist at MIT whose work on aging has been featured in the
Reviewed on: 01/06/2003
Genre: Nonfiction