| THE YOUTH PILL Scientists at the Brink of an Anti-Aging Revolution David Stipp New York: Current, 2010 | Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-61723-000-4 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1-61723-000-6 | 308pp. | HC | $26.95 | |
| Page 30: | "...Susan Doctrow, Eukarion's vice president of research, noted that 'we're not going to test our compounds for their effects on ageing. But...'" |
| Typo: S/B "aging" (as it is in hundreds of other places throughout the book.) |
| Page 39: | The same footnote that appears here appears on page 30. |
| It fits on page 30; here, it does not. |
| Page 42: | "When he added a sample of the compound to a test tube full of hydrogen peroxide, bubbles of oxygen instantly fizzed up..." |
| Basic chemistry tells us that almost any organic compound will do this when mixed with H2O2 (hydrogen peroxide). So will many inorganic compounds and a number of metals, e.g. silver. By itself, this test tells us nothing about the specific property Malfroy sought in his compound — unless the author is describing it poorly. |
| Page 221: | "But the vision, buzz, money, luck, and chutzpah required to make this happen in biotech has really come together only once so far—at Sirtris, the subject of the next chapter." |
| Number error: S/B "have". |
| Page 222: | "...the Polaroid Corporation's former headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has the kempt, desolate air of a landmark whose significance has faded from living memory." |
| Vocabulary: S/B "unkempt". (at least, so it seems to me; "kempt" means trim or tidy.) |
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