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Leonard Guarente

Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Publications -  353
Citations -  86116

Leonard Guarente is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gene & Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The author has an hindex of 143, co-authored 352 publications receiving 80169 citations. Previous affiliations of Leonard Guarente include Novartis & Harvard University.

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Calorie restriction extends Saccharomyces cerevisiae lifespan by increasing respiration

TL;DR: In this paper, a model of calorie restriction in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae was established and it was shown that the shunting of carbon metabolism toward the mitochondrial tricarboxylic acid cycle and the concomitant increase in respiration play a central part in this process.
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Yeast promoters and lacZ fusions designed to study expression of cloned genes in yeast.

TL;DR: This chapter describes plasmids and methods for constructing fusions of any cloned gene to lacZ for study in yeast, which provide powerful tools in the analysis of the expression of yeast genes.
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Calorie restriction, SIRT1 and metabolism: understanding longevity

TL;DR: Recent findings that are beginning to clarify the mechanisms by which CR results in longevity and robust health, which might open new avenues of therapy for diseases of ageing are summarized.