Soccer Molecule of Youth? Fullerene C60 Increases Lifespan by +90% and Protects Against Free Radicals
Image 1: Fullerenes are carbon molecules with a specific symmetrical structure; the Buckminster fullerene C60 , for example, which is made of 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons, with a carbon atom at the vertices of each polygon and a bond along each polygon edge looks like a soccer ball (img. Bryn C .) I must confess, this is not the "usual" SuppVersity news, but after making sure that the paper was not published on April, 1st, I thought that it is more than worth sharing; and that despite the fact that I am not aware of any Buckminster fullerene (C60, cf. image 1 ) olive oil solutions being sold at your local GNC... well, at least not as of yet. The earliest studies on the biological and pharmacological properties of [60]fullerene, as the "correct" notation for the "soccer ball-ish" Buckminster fullerene would be, date back to the early 1990. Despite its established usefulness in DNA cleavage, imaging, UV and radioprotection, as well as its antivira...