From owner-ageing@net.bio.net Sat Jan 09 22:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!UVVM.UVIC.CA!RUDI From: RUDI@UVVM.UVIC.CA (Rudi Samoszynski) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.ageing Subject: Insect ageing Review Message-ID: <9301101825.AA10097@net.bio.net> Date: 10 Jan 93 18:22:15 GMT Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: bionet Lines: 14 I'm looking for reviews on insect ageing, or specific papers on the topic. Can any of you help point me to some literature? Many thanks in advance Sincerely RUDI@UVVM.UVIC.CA (BITNET) RUDOLF B. SAMOSZYNSKI LABORATORY COORDINATOR/INSTRUCTOR SCHOOL OF HEALTH INFORMATION SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA; P.O.BOX 3050, VICTORIA B.C. CANADA, V8W 2Y2 PH: (604)721-6461 FAX: (604)721-1457 PH: (604)652-2318 (HOME) EMAIL: RUDI@UVVM.UVIC.CA From owner-ageing@net.bio.net Tue Jan 12 22:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!agate!spool.mu.edu!torn!news.ccs.queensu.ca!qucdn!promislo From: PROMISLO@QUCDN.QueensU.CA Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.ageing Subject: Re: Insect ageing Review Message-ID: <93013.131537PROMISLO@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> Date: 13 Jan 93 18:15:37 GMT References: <9301101825.AA10097@net.bio.net> Distribution: bionet Organization: Queen's University at Kingston Lines: 25 Message-Id: 3620:Daniel.Promislow@QueensU.CA From: Daniel.Promislow@QueensU.CA To: rudi@uvvm.uvic.ca Subject: insect ageing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Regarding a request for reviews on insect ageing... I don't know of any reviews dealing specifically with insect ageing (my own work is on vertebrates) but there are certainly a number of papers and books that you may find interesting. Michael Rose and Caleb E. Finch have both published excellent books on the evolution of senescence in the past year. Rose's own work, discussed extensively in his book, deals with ageing in Drosophila. Finch provides an exceptionally broad review of senescence throughout the animal and plant kingdoms. In addition, there are are some recent articles on senescence that turn hitherto widely-accepted notions of ageing in invertebrates on their heads. See Carey et al. 1992 (Science 258:457-461) in which they show that mortality rates do _not_ increase indefinitely with age, at least in medflies, and Martinez et al. 1992 (PNAS 9920-9923), who show that senescence does, in fact, occur in asexual metazoans. Hope this is of some help. Daniel Promislow Queen's University From owner-ageing@net.bio.net Tue Jan 12 22:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!LAMAR.COLOSTATE.EDU!mouse From: mouse@LAMAR.COLOSTATE.EDU (ann baker) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.ageing Subject: Re: Insect ageing Review Message-ID: <9301132047.AA37531@lamar.ColoState.EDU> Date: 13 Jan 93 20:47:31 GMT Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: bionet Lines: 1 From owner-ageing@net.bio.net Wed Jan 13 22:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!vtssi.vt.edu!hhuq From: hhuq@vtssi.vt.edu (Hassan Huq) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.ageing Subject: cancellation Message-ID: <9301140244.AA05320@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> Date: 14 Jan 93 02:48:55 GMT Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: bionet Lines: 3 Please cancel my subscription to this news group. Thank you. Hassan Huq From owner-ageing@net.bio.net Wed Jan 13 22:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!agate!spool.mu.edu!torn!blaze.trentu.ca!trentu.ca!jmacinnis From: jmacinnis@trentu.ca (Jennifer MacInnis) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.ageing Subject: elderly drivers Message-ID: <14JAN199316294447@trentu.ca> Date: 14 Jan 93 21:29:00 GMT Sender: news@trentu.ca (USENET News System) Organization: Trent Computing and Telecommunications Department Lines: 7 News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 Please could you help. I am writing an essay dealing with elderly automobile drivers. If you know of any information which pertains to this topic could you please let me know of it via E-mail. Thank You for Your Help Jennifer From owner-ageing@net.bio.net Sun Jan 17 22:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!ALLIANT.SNU.AC.KR!u9307012 From: u9307012@ALLIANT.SNU.AC.KR Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.ageing Subject: (none) Message-ID: <9301180553.AA01714@alliant.snu.ac.kr> Date: 18 Jan 93 19:53:44 GMT Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: bionet Lines: 1 signin Chung, S.W. From owner-ageing@net.bio.net Sun Jan 17 22:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.claremont.edu!nntp-server.caltech.edu!leda.cs.caltech.edu!mikael From: mikael@leda.cs.caltech.edu (Mikael P B Larsson) Newsgroups: bionet.immunology,bionet.info-theory,bionet.molbio.ageing,bionet.molbio.agroforestry Subject: interactive supercomputing Keywords: interactive supercomputing, computational engineering, Message-ID: <1jedo9INNrku@gap.caltech.edu> Date: 18 Jan 93 14:10:17 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 23 Xref: biosci bionet.immunology:219 bionet.info-theory:1044 bionet.molbio.ageing:374 NNTP-Posting-Host: leda.cs.caltech.edu computational biology, computational chemistry Hi, I am working with a new type of high speed logic and its applications for high performance computers. I am particularly interested in "interactive supercomputing". Being an electrical engineer, I have fairly naive views of what people in other disciplines might like to use a strong computer for, so I would be grateful if you could tell me what you are currently using computers for, what tasks you would like to run in interactive mode, where you would like to use models with higher resolution and so on. Pointers to the literature would also be greatly appreciated. Please reply by email. Thanks in advance Mikael Larsson Graduate Student Dept of Computer Science Caltech Pasadena From owner-ageing@net.bio.net Thu Jan 28 22:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!uunet!bounce-back From: bmdelane@midway.uchicago.edu (Brian Manning Delaney) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,sci.med,sci.med.nutrition,sci.bio,sci.cryonics,sci.nanotech,alt.psychoactives,rec.arts.sf.science,bionet.molbio.ageing Subject: RFD: sci.bio.life-extension Message-ID: <1kacvlINNdvo@rodan.UU.NET> Date: 29 Jan 93 04:48:53 GMT Sender: tale@rodan.UU.NET Followup-To: news.groups Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 38 Approved: tale@uunet.uu.net Xref: biosci news.announce.newgroups:414 news.groups:8509 sci.med:7506 sci.med.nutrition:1582 sci.bio:1807 sci.cryonics:213 sci.nanotech:223 rec.arts.sf.science:1338 bionet.molbio.ageing:375 NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net This is a formal Request for Discussion regarding the establishment of an unmoderated sci.bio.life-extension newsgroup. <> Purpose of the Newsgroup. The newsgroup would be primarily for the discussion of techniques of slowing, stopping, and reversing the aging process, from a practical as well as theoretical standpoint. This includes, as life-extensionists say, "adding life to years as well as years to life;" i.e., we'll discuss not just techniques of "extending" what in some cases might be a state of already senescent decrepitude, but also ways of restoring and maintaining youth. In addition, the social consequences of increased human lifespan may be discussed. (The name of the group implies no stance on the merits of the book, "Life Extension," by Pearson and Shaw.) <> Rationale. This topic has received increasing attention in recent years as research gerontologists have begun to understand the biological mechanisms of aging. As interest in this topic has grown, so has discussion on the Net. The discussion has been scattered across a variety of newsgroups, including bionet.molbio.aging, sci.cryonics, sci.med.nutrition, and alt.psychoactives. None of these newsgroups is appropriate to a broad discussion of life-extension. The "bionet" groups are theoretical only, and most sites don't carry them. Sci.cryonics specializes in only one technique of life extension. Sci.med.nutrition and alt.psychoactives allow only the limited discussion of life-extension that falls within the spheres of nutrition and psychoactive drugs, respectively, and the emphasis of each is not on life-extension *per se*. A new group would consolidate the discussion, and would provide a more appropriate forum for the more general issues related to longevity, which do not fall under the purview of any current newsgroup. <> Note All discussion should be posted to news.groups.