The social and medical costs of the biological aging process are high and will rise rapidly in
coming decades, creating an enormous challenge to societies worldwide. In recent …

One of the main benefits of the dramatic technological progress over the last two centuries is
the enormous increase in human life expectancy, which has now reached record highs. After …

Just as the health costs of aging threaten to bankrupt developed countries, this book makes
the scientific case that a biological" bailout" could be on the way, and that human aging can …

Aging is a modifiable risk factor for most chronic diseases and an inevitable process in
humans. The development of pharmacological interventions aimed at delaying or preventing …

The workshop entitled 'Interventions to Slow Aging in Humans: Are We Ready?'was held in
Erice, Italy, on October 8–13, 2013, to bring together leading experts in the biology and …

Answering the question as to why we age is tantamount to answering the question of what is
life itself. There are countless theories as to why and how we age, but, until recently, the very …

Among individuals, biological aging leads to cellular and organismal dysfunction and an
increased risk of chronic degenerative diseases and disability. This sequence of events in …

Age is the greatest risk factor for nearly every major cause of mortality in developed nations.
Despite this, most biomedical research focuses on individual disease processes without …

For many years, it was believed that the aging process was inevitable and that age‐related
diseases could not be prevented or reversed. The geroscience hypothesis, however, posits …

Biogerontology—the study of the bio-logical basis of ageing—is now a mature research field
that could eventually offer effective applications to ease the burden of old age. Unlike other …