He is the co-founder of a Wisconsin company, LifeGen Technologies LLC, that works with drug makers to quantify the effect of possible life-extending drugs.

温德·鲁奇是当地一家公司LifeGen Technologies LLC的共同创始人。该公司与制药商合作，对可能延长寿命的药物成效进行量化衡量。

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Dr. Atkinson figured that if a similar founder effect could be discerned in phonemes, it would support the idea that modern verbal communication originated on that continent and only then expanded elsewhere.

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Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, a firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, of which Dr Sinclair is a co-founder, has identified a number of synthetic molecules whose effect on yeast is many times more potent than resveratrol's.

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It is based on a piece of evolutionary theory called the founder effect, which shows how the isolation of small populations from larger ones can accelerate evolutionary change, because a small population's average characteristics are likely to differ from those of the larger group from which it is drawn.

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