Translational antiaging research.

Approximately 200 worldwide researchers attended the fourth SENS Foundation’s conference at Queens’ College in Cambridge, UK, September 3–7, 2009. SENS conferences are distinguished from other biogerontological and aging research conferences by having more of an applied focus on antiaging therapies. The main subfields of aging research covered at SENS4 were intracellular and extracellular junk buildups, telomeres and cancer, immunology, therapeutic delivery, stem cells, and tissue engineering. Key findings included eliminating accumulated waste through small molecule binding, de novo enzyme design, genetic recombination using zinc finger proteins, and intranasal stem cell delivery to the brain.