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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction and Orientation
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Front Matter
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The Future of Aging
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About this book
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 be different in the future than it is today. Here 40 authors argue how our improving understanding of the biology of aging and selected technologies should enable the successful use of many different and complementary methods for ameliorating aging, and why such interventions are appropriate based on our current historical, anthropological, philosophical, ethical, evolutionary, and biological context. Challenging concepts are presented together with in-depth reviews and paradigm-breaking proposals that collectively illustrate the potential for changing aging as never before. The proposals extend from today to a future many decades from now in which the control of aging may become effectively complete. Examples include sirtuin-modulating pills, new concepts for attacking cardiovascular disease and cancer, mitochondrial rejuvenation, stem cell therapies and regeneration, tissue reconstruction, telomere maintenance, prevention of immunosenescence, extracellular rejuvenation, artificial DNA repair, and full deployment of nanotechnology. The Future of Aging will make you think about aging differently and is a challenge to all of us to open our eyes to the future therapeutic potential of biogerontology.
Editors and Affiliations
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Intervene Biomedical, LLC, Norco, USA
Gregory M. Fahy
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BioTime, Inc., Alameda, USA
Michael D. West
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Institute of Molecular Biology Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Young Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
L. Stephen Coles
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Critical Care Research, Inc., Rancho Cucamonga, USA
Steven B. Harris
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Future of Aging
Book Subtitle: Pathways to Human Life Extension
Editors: Gregory M. Fahy, Michael D. West, L. Stephen Coles, Steven B. Harris
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3999-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3998-9Published: 17 August 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7790-2Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3999-6Published: 28 July 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 866
Topics: Biomedicine general, Biotechnology, Nanochemistry, Philosophy of Medicine, Geriatrics/Gerontology