USC Dornsife News

Pushed out of a music department in Texas, USC Dornsife’s Valter Longo still believes rock ‘n’ roll will never die. Now he’s working on the formula for human longevity.

In a recent study published online in Aging Cell, neurobiologist Valter Longo of USC Dornsife has shown that Alzheimer-stricken mice on a low-protein diet show fewer symptoms of the disease. He’s studying whether humans respond similarly.

A new study published in PLOS One and led by USC Dornsife’s Valter Longo finds that controlled short-term fasting in mice improved the effectiveness of radiation and chemotherapy in treating gliomas, the most commonly diagnosed brain tumor.