In the summer of 1968, the microbiologist Leonard Hayflick loaded a bomb-shaped canister into the back of his secondhand green Buick LeSabre, piled his kids in the car, and drove from the Philadelphia ...

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In November, Philadelphia presented the John Scott Award to three innovators for their work in science. Taunya English profiled one of the winners. Leonard Hayflick is an exacting man. Accuracy—and ...

The names capture our attention and raise visceral fears. Today it is Zika and Ebola. In the recent past it was measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox and, of course, polio. The roll of human viral ...

Hayflick was interested in detecting viruses that might cause human cancer. He would extract viruses from the culture fluid in which he grew cancer cells and attempt to transform normal cells into ...

Submitted in response to Technology Review’s interview with Leonard Hayflick. See “Can Aging Be Solved?” Entropy is not the most fruitful perspective from which ...