Rest of volume 2, Issue 3

The rest of issue 3 of 1999 consists of:

A review of the 28th Annual Meeting of the American Aging Association by RM Anson and MA Lane.

Two book reviews:

• "Understanding the process of aging: The roles of mitochondria, free radicals, and antioxidants", edited by Enrique Cadenas and Lester Packer. Very positive.
• "Towards prolongation of the healthy life span: Practical approaches to intervention", edited by Denham Harman, Robin Holliday and Mohsen Meydani. This is the collection of papers and posters for the 1997 meeting of the International Association of Biomedical Gerontology. Also very positive

The gerontology literature review:

• "Human embryonic stem-cell research: science and ethics", by Shirley J Wright, in American Scientist. Ethics of stem cell research.
• "Embryonic stem cells for medicine", by Roger A Pedersen, in Scientific American. Ethics of embryonic stem cells and cloning.

The usual other sections: literature watch and calendar. Web watch disappeared.