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Perls Collection Amedeo Modigliani's 'Reclining Nude' Our visit occurs just before her March East Coast tour with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, and a series of solo recitals culminating with a May 13 appearance at the museum itself.
Finding Parallels in Paintings Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011
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Nick Perls, another fan, found the great Son House living in Rochester, New York, completely oblivious to a newfound interest in his earliest recordings.
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Nick Perls, another fan, found the great Son House living in Rochester, New York, completely oblivious to a newfound interest in his earliest recordings.
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"Men tend to be more susceptible to mortality in age-related diseases," Perls said.
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Nevertheless, Perls said the research might point the way to determining who will be vulnerable to specific diseases sooner, and there may be a possibility, down the road, to help guide therapy for them.
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"I look at the complexity of this puzzle and feel very strongly that this will not lead to treatments that will get a lot of people to become centenarians, but rather to make a dent in the onset of age-related diseases like Alzheimer's," Perls said.
New study of centenarians links certain genetic variations to a long lifespan 2010
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"A lot of people might ask, 'Well, who would want to live to 100?', because they think they have every age-related disease under the sun and are on death's doorstep," Perls said.
New study of centenarians links certain genetic variations to a long lifespan 2010
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"I look at the complexity of this puzzle and feel very strongly that this will not lead to treatments that will get a lot of people to become centenarians, but rather to make a dent in the onset of age-related diseases like Alzheimer's," Perls said.
New study of centenarians links certain genetic variations to a long lifespan 2010
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Perls and his colleagues analyzed the genes of participants in the New England Centenarian Study, which is the largest study of centenarians and their families in the world.
New study of centenarians links certain genetic variations to a long lifespan 2010
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Perls cautioned that this is a very complex genetic puzzle and "we're quite a ways away, still, in understanding what pathways are governed by these genes."
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