Organism envy afflicts most researchers who work on aging in mice; how frustrating it is to
see the worm and fly biologists nail down milestone after milestone, citation after citation …

For several decades, understanding ageing and the processes that limit lifespan have
challenged biologists. Thirty years ago, the biology of ageing gained unprecedented …

Each animal species displays a specific life span, rate of aging and pattern of development
of age-dependent diseases. The genetic bases of these related features are being studied …

The field of aging is at a precipice. Attention and funding are increasingly focused on this
area, and exciting, fundamentally important findings are being reported literally every day …

Human ageing is the gradual decline in organ and tissue function with increasing
chronological time, leading eventually to loss of function and death. To study the processes …

Are diseases caused by aging? What are the mechanisms of aging? Do all species age?
These hotly debated questions revolve around a unitary definition of aging. Because we use …

Thanks to improvements in hygiene and healthcare, human life expectancy in developed
countries has been increasing at a steady rate of about 2.5 years per decade since the …

Between the 1930s and 50s, evolutionary biologists developed a successful theory of why
organisms age, firmly rooted in population genetic principles. By the 1980s the evolution of …

The 40 th anniversary of Cell coincides with that of the National Institute on Aging (NIA).
Indeed, Cell papers on NIA-funded research helped move the field into a genetic and …

During the past ten years considerable progress has been made in discovering genes that
regulate longevity by identifying single gene mutations that lead to increased longevity. The …