ANEW ANGLE ON'OLD'

摘要

Are ageing and disease two sides of the same coin? Erika Check Hayden reports from an institute that is betting that they are. Don't forget," Robert Hughes reminds a colleague in the hallway, "beer on the landing later to celebrate my impending death." Hughes isn't ill, but rather kicking off festivities for his 45th birthday. And working at the Buck Institute in Novato, California, an independent institute devoted to ageing research, tends to alter the way one thinks about birthdays.