Overview
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Avril D. Woodhead
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Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, USA
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Anthony D. Blackett
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University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, UK
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Alexander Hollaender
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Council for Research Planning in Biological Sciences, Inc., USA
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Changes in DNA with Age - II
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- Jay H. Robbins, Roger A. Brumback, Ronald J. Polinsky, Jonathan D. Wirtschafter, Robert E. Tarone, Dominic A. Scudiero et al.
Pages 315-344
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Diseases Featuring Altered Rates of Aging
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- W. Ted Brown, Michael Zebrower, Fred J. Kieras
Pages 375-396
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- Peter D. Gorevic, Jules Elias, Nancy Peress
Pages 397-418
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- Robert W. Gracy, M. L. Chapman, J. K. Cini, M. Jahani, T. O. Tollefsbol, K. Ü. Yüksel
Pages 427-442
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Future Directions in Aging Research
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- Ronald W. Hart, Angelo Turturro
Pages 443-445
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Back Matter
Pages 465-482
About this book
It is delightful but humbling to find my face at the start of these Proceedings--there are innumerable other faces which could equally weIl stand there, from among the band who have fore gathered at every gerontology conference since the subject was launched in its present form; but I deeply appreciate being there. Gerontology d. id not grow by accident. Its present standing is the fruit of careful planning, undertaken by European and American scientists back in the 1950's. In those days it was still a "fringe" science, and the conspirators had much the standing of the 1920's Interplanetary Society. The United States itself is the offspring of conspiracy, for when the results of conspiracy are beneficent, the conspirators become Founding Fathers. This has been the case with gerontology. The present meeting is especially gratifying because the papers have been recitals of normal, hard-science investigation. We had to get through the rigors of a long period of semantic argument and a long period of one-shot general theories before this kind of meeting, normal in all other research fields, could take place. It was also necesssary to breed in the menagerie a generation of excellent investigators aware of the theoretical background but unintimidated by it, who share our conviction that human aging is comprehensible and probably controllable, and who go into the laboratory to attack specifics.
Editors and Affiliations
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Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, USA
Avril D. Woodhead
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University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, UK
Anthony D. Blackett
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Council for Research Planning in Biological Sciences, Inc., USA
Alexander Hollaender