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Ending aging: the rejuvenation breakthroughs that could reverse human aging in our lifetime

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: St. Martin's Griffin 2007 New YorkDescription: xvi,433 p. Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN:
  • 9780312367077
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 618.97 G7E6
Summary: Nearly all scientists who study the biology of aging agree that we will someday be able to substantially slow down the aging process, extending our productive, youthful lives. Dr. Aubrey de Grey is perhaps the most bullish of all such researchers. As has been reported in media outlets ranging from 60 Minutes to The New York Times, Dr. de Grey believes that the key biomedical technology required to eliminate aging-derived debilitation and death entirely―technology that would not only slow but periodically reverse age-related physiological decay, leaving us biologically young into an indefinite future―is now within reach. In Ending Aging, Dr. de Grey and his research assistant Michael Rae describe the details of this biotechnology. They explain that the aging of the human body, just like the aging of man-made machines, results from an accumulation of various types of damage. As with man-made machines, this damage can periodically be repaired, leading to indefinite extension of the machine's fully functional lifetime, just as is routinely done with classic cars. We already know what types of damage accumulate in the human body, and we are moving rapidly toward the comprehensive development of technologies to remove that -damage. By demystifying aging and its postponement for the nonspecialist reader, de Grey and Rae systematically dismantle the fatalist presumption that aging will forever defeat the efforts of medical science. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312367077/endingaging
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Table of contents

The eureka moment --
Wake up-aging kills! --
Demystifying aging --
Engineering rejuvenation --
Meltdown of the cellular power plants --
Getting off the grid --
Upgrading the biological incinerators --
Cutting free of the cellular spider webs --
Breaking the shackles of age --
Putting the zombies to rest --
New cells for old --
Nuclear mutations and the total defeat of cancer --
Getting from here to there: the war on aging --
Bootstrapping our way to an ageless future --
War bonds for the campaign against aging.

Nearly all scientists who study the biology of aging agree that we will someday be able to substantially slow down the aging process, extending our productive, youthful lives. Dr. Aubrey de Grey is perhaps the most bullish of all such researchers. As has been reported in media outlets ranging from 60 Minutes to The New York Times, Dr. de Grey believes that the key biomedical technology required to eliminate aging-derived debilitation and death entirely―technology that would not only slow but periodically reverse age-related physiological decay, leaving us biologically young into an indefinite future―is now within reach.

In Ending Aging, Dr. de Grey and his research assistant Michael Rae describe the details of this biotechnology. They explain that the aging of the human body, just like the aging of man-made machines, results from an accumulation of various types of damage. As with man-made machines, this damage can periodically be repaired, leading to indefinite extension of the machine's fully functional lifetime, just as is routinely done with classic cars. We already know what types of damage accumulate in the human body, and we are moving rapidly toward the comprehensive development of technologies to remove that -damage. By demystifying aging and its postponement for the nonspecialist reader, de Grey and Rae systematically dismantle the fatalist presumption that aging will forever defeat the efforts of medical science.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312367077/endingaging

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