| ETERNITY SOUP Inside the Quest to End Aging Greg Critser New York: Harmony Books, January 2010 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-307-40790-0 | ||||
| ISBN 0-307-40790-X | 234pp. | HC/GSI | $26.00 | |
| Page 3: | "Roy Walford, one of them, had never been the same after, and many quietly suspected that his recent death, at age seventy-nine of Lou Gehrig's disease, to be a direct result of the biosphere experience." |
| Unwanted word. |
| Page 27: | "This was the belief that all in vitro cells—cells grown under glass—were, technically, immortal." |
| Format error: S/B "in-vitro" (or italicized.) |
| Page 31: | "He knew everything about rattus, and with such specificity that he once wrote an entire book about how the little rodent metabolized fats." |
| It is too Critser's credit that he avoided the term "rat fat." |
| Page 37: | "...how it slowed down the loss of gamma crystallens in the mouse eye lens..." |
| This is one of several terms Critser presents before he defines it. |
| Page 43: | "...CR people, for example, do not show reduced IGF-1 signaling, while CR mice did..." |
| This is one of several terms Critser presents before he defines it. |
| Page 59: | "Grasela is a tall, somewhat taciturn-looking man in his early fifties..." |
| I suppose it's better than "musical-looking"; that might lead you to be insulted by Charles Bronson. But seriously: how does one look taciturn? I don't think that failing to have kissed The Stone would show on your face. |
| Page 62: | "The offices of Dr. Ron Rothernberg, one of Grasela's thought leaders, sits off the San Diego freeway...." |
| Number error: S/B "office." Also, I think "freeway" should be capitalized. |
| Page 66: | "As its name suggests, IGF-1 is responsible for growth and maturation of bones, muscles, and cartilage." |
| This acronym is defined in the previous sentence. That is a good thing. But previously, on pages 43, 46, 48 and 49, we have only the acronym. |
| Page 79: | "Olshansky, a big, bearish man, and his friend, the quieter Dr. Thomas Perls, who oversees the New England Centenarian Study, were so convinced that all antiaging medicine was quackery..." |
| Another term undefined... |
| Page 127: | "Third, aging was random and unregulated. How could you reengineer a process that voluble?" |
| Vocabulary: I don't think this is a suitable word for the concept. |
| Page 140: | "Rose hired de Grey to help compile a computerized fruit fly gene index, and it was while immersed on the screen that he acquired the aging bug." |
| Word choice, or typo: S/B "in." |
| Page 157: | "Does oxidative stress, IGF-1, and hormone modulation really matter?" |
| Number error: S/B "Do." |
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