Human senescence has been delayed by a decade. This finding, documented in 1994 and
bolstered since, is a fundamental discovery about the biology of human ageing, and one …

Advances in our knowledge of age-associated diseases have far outpaced advances in our
understanding of the fundamental ageing processes that underlie the vulnerability to these …

How many factors contribute to the aging process? How many genes determine longevity?
Are stochastic or programmed events more important? How do we distinguish primary and …

This is an extensively revised version of The biology of ageing published in 1954, and
includes a great deal of new material that has since accumulated in the expanding field of …

Recent discoveries in the science of ageing indicate that lifespan in model organisms such
as yeast, nematodes, flies and mice is plastic and can be manipulated by genetic, nutritional …

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Prospects for an ageing population from Jacob A. Brody The ageing populations of …

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This book considers the nature of human aging from our perspectives as biologists. We
wanted to convey... new insights from laboratory and clinical studies, but we also wanted to …

Although historical records indicate that older people have always exist ed in human
societies, survival beyond age 50 for most members of a popula tion was a rare event until …

As people live longer, the question arises of how malleable aging is and whether it can be
slowed or postponed. The classic evolutionary theories of aging (—) provide the theoretical …