Telomerase and human disease: the beginnings of the ends? Rejuvenation Research 12:333-340, 2009.
Telomerase and human disease: the beginnings of the ends? Rejuvenation Research 12:333-340, 2009.
Cells, Aging, and Human Disease is the first book to explore aging all the way from genes to clinical application, analyzing the fundamental cellular changes which underlie human age-related disease. With over 4,000 references, this text explores both the fundamental processes of human aging and the tissue-by-tissue pathology, detailing both breaking research and current state-of-the-art clinical interventions in aging and age-related disease.
Science may soon be able to slow, stop, or even reverse the aging process in humans. What will happen when people can live on and on for centuries?
Within the next two decades we will extend the healthy human life-span indefinitely and, in doing so, alter human culture forever.
Our maximum life-spans will not have become infinite, but indefinite: uncertain and unknown. The social consequences of extended life-spans are also unknown but likely to be explosive. The increase of healthy life-spans to perhaps double or more our current spans will trigger social changes greater perhaps than any since those that followed the invention of agriculture more than 10,000
