| Description |
x, 389 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Eureka moment -- 2. Wake up - aging kills! -- 3. Demystifying aging -- 4. Engineering rejuvenation -- 5. Meltdown of the cellular power plants -- 6. Getting off the grid -- 7. Upgrading the biological incinerators -- 8. Cutting free of the cellular spider webs -- 9. Breaking the shackles of age -- 10. Putting the zombies to rest -- 11. New cells for old -- 12. Nuclear mutations and the total defeat of cancer -- 13. Getting from here to there : the war on aging -- 14. Bootstrapping our way to an ageless future -- 15. War bonds for the campaign against aging |
| Summary |
"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." |
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"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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Longevity.
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Aging -- Molecular aspects.
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Biotechnology.
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| Author |
Rae, Michael.
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| LC no. |
2007020217 |
| ISBN |
9780312367060 |
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0312367066 |
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