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* ACE inhibitor * Actuarial escape velocity * Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) * Advanced Cell Technology Corporation *

Aerobic exercise Aerobic exercise (also known as endurance activities, cardio or cardio-respiratory exercise) is physical exercise of low to high intensity that depends primarily on the aerobic energy-generating process. "Aerobic" is defined as "relating to, inv ...

Age-adjusted life expectancy Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, current age, and other demographic factors like sex. The most commonly used measure is life expectancy at birth ...

Ageless Ageless is an adjective describing a person or thing whose age cannot be defined, is non-existent, or appears not to change. It can also describe something that has always existed without a precise beginning or an end. Agelessness can be used as ...

Age-Related Eye Disease Study The Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) was a clinical trial sponsored by the National Eye Institute that ran from 1992-2001. The study was designed to: * investigate the natural history and risk factors of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) ...

Age-Related Macular Degeneration Macular degeneration, also known as age-related macular degeneration (AMD or ARMD), is a medical condition which may result in blurred or no vision in the center of the visual field. Early on there are often no symptoms. Over time, however, som ...

* Aging *

Aging and memory Age-related memory loss, sometimes described as "normal aging" (also spelled "ageing" in British English), is qualitatively different from memory loss associated with types of dementia such as Alzheimer's disease, and is believed to have a diffe ...

* Aging-associated diseases *

Aging brain Aging is a major risk factor for most common neurodegenerative diseases, including mild cognitive impairment, dementias including Alzheimer's disease, cerebrovascular disease, Parkinson's disease, and Lou Gehrig's disease. While much research has f ...

Aging population Population ageing is an increasing median age in a population because of declining fertility rates and rising life expectancy. Most countries have rising life expectancy and an ageing population, trends that emerged first in developed countries ...

Alcor Life Extension Foundation The Alcor Life Extension Foundation, most often referred to as Alcor, is an American nonprofit, federally tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization based in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States. Alcor advocates for, researches, and performs cryonics, th ...

* Alternative medicine *

American Aging Association The American Aging Association is a non-profit, tax-exempt biogerontology organization of scientists and laypeople dedicated to biomedical aging studies and geroscience, with the goal of slowing the aging process to extend the healthy human lifesp ...

* American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) *

Amyloid Amyloids are aggregates of proteins characterised by a fibrillar morphology of 7–13 nm in diameter, a beta sheet (β-sheet) secondary structure (known as cross-β) and ability to be stained by particular dyes, such as Congo red. In the huma ...

Amyloid plaque Amyloid plaques (also known as neuritic plaques, amyloid beta plaques or senile plaques) are extracellular deposits of the amyloid beta (Aβ) protein mainly in the grey matter of the brain. Degenerative neuronal elements and an abundance of mi ...

* Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), e.g.,

Lou Gehrig's disease Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that results in the progressive loss of motor neurons that control voluntary muscles. ALS is the most com ...

* Antagonistic Pleiotropy * Antioxidant ** Polyphenol antioxidant *

Antisense therapy Antisense therapy is a form of treatment that uses antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) to target messenger RNA (mRNA). ASOs are capable of altering mRNA expression through a variety of mechanisms, including ribonuclease H mediated decay of the pre- ...

* Apoptosis *

Atherosclerosis Atherosclerosis is a pattern of the disease arteriosclerosis in which the wall of the artery develops abnormalities, called lesions. These lesions may lead to narrowing due to the buildup of atheromatous plaque. At onset there are usually no s ...

* ATP (

adenosine triphosphate Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is an organic compound that provides energy to drive many processes in living cells, such as muscle contraction, nerve impulse propagation, condensate dissolution, and chemical synthesis. Found in all known forms o ...

) * Autoimmune disease

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Biodemography Biodemography is the science dealing with the integration of biological theory and demography. Overview Biodemography is a new branch of human (classical) demography concerned with understanding the complementary biological and demographic deter ...

Biodemography of human longevity Biodemography is a multidisciplinary approach, integrating biological knowledge (studies on human biology and animal models) with demographic research on human longevity and survival. Biodemographic studies are important for understanding the driv ...

Bioethics Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, m ...

* Biological clock *

Biogerontology Biogerontology is the sub-field of gerontology concerned with the biological aging process, its evolutionary origins, and potential means to intervene in the process. The term "biogerontology" was coined by S. Rattan, and came in regular use wit ...

* Biological immortality *

Biomarkers of aging Biomarkers of aging are biomarkers that could predict functional capacity at some later age better than chronological age. Stated another way, biomarkers of aging would give the true "biological age", which may be different from the chronological ...

Biotechnology Biotechnology is the integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms, cells, parts thereof and molecular analogues for products and services. The term ''biotechnology'' was first used ...

Brain–computer interface A brain–computer interface (BCI), sometimes called a brain–machine interface (BMI) or smartbrain, is a direct communication pathway between the brain's electrical activity and an external device, most commonly a computer or robotic limb. B ...

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Caloric restriction mimetic Calorie restriction mimetics (CRM), also known as energy restriction mimetics, are a hypothetical class of dietary supplements or drug candidates that would, in principle, mimic the substantial anti-aging effects that calorie restriction (CR) has o ...

Caloric restriction Calorie restriction (caloric restriction or energy restriction) is a dietary regimen that reduces intake of energy from caloric foods & beverages without incurring malnutrition. "Reduce" can be defined relative to the subject's previous intake be ...

* CR Society International * Cell replacement therapy *

Cholinergic Cholinergic agents are compounds which mimic the action of acetylcholine and/or butyrylcholine. In general, the word " choline" describes the various quaternary ammonium salts containing the ''N'',''N'',''N''-trimethylethanolammonium cati ...

* Clone *

Cloning Cloning is the process of producing individual organisms with identical or virtually identical DNA, either by natural or artificial means. In nature, some organisms produce clones through asexual reproduction. In the field of biotechnology, c ...

Human cloning Human cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy (or clone) of a human. The term is generally used to refer to artificial human cloning, which is the reproduction of human cells and tissue. It does not refer to the natural concepti ...

Therapeutic cloning In genetics and developmental biology, somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) is a laboratory strategy for creating a viable embryo from a body cell and an egg cell. The technique consists of taking an enucleated oocyte (egg cell) and implantin ...

* Club of Rome * Cockayne's syndrome *

Cognitive enhancement Neuroenhancement or cognitive enhancement refers to the targeted enhancement and extension of cognitive and affective abilities based on an understanding of their underlying neurobiology in healthy persons who do not have any mental illness. As su ...

Compensation law of mortality The compensation law of mortality (or late-life mortality convergence) states that the relative differences in death rates between different populations of the same biological species decrease with age, because the higher initial death rates in disa ...

Complementary and alternative medicine Alternative medicine is any practice that aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine despite lacking biological plausibility, testability, repeatability, or evidence from clinical trials. Complementary medicine (CM), complementary and al ...

* Cross-link * Cyborg * Cynthia Kenyon * Cryobiology * Cryonics * Cryopreservation * Cryoprotectant

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* Daily values * Aubrey de Grey, de Grey, Dr. Aubrey ** De Grey Technology Review controversy * Harry Demopoulos, Demopoulos M.D., Harry B. * Dendrite * Dihydrotestosterone, DHT (dihydrotestosterone) * Dietary supplement * Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 * Dihydrotestosterone, Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) * DNA, DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) ** Mitochondrial DNA * DNA damage theory of aging * DNA repair * Dolly the sheep * Dopaminergic * K. Eric Drexler, Drexler, K. Eric

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* ''Ending Aging'', a 2007 book which describes Aubrey de Grey's biomedical proposal for defeating aging (i.e. SENS Research Foundation, SENS). * Endocrine system * Strategies for engineered negligible senescence, Engineered negligible senescence * Engines of creation * Error catastrophe * Eugenics * Eugeroic * Evolution of ageing * Exercise **

* Existential risk * Extropy

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* Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever * Food and Drug Administration, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) * Free radical ** Superoxide, Superoxide radical ** Hydroxyl#Hydroxyl radical, Hydroxyl radical * Free-radical theory, Free-radical theory of aging * Full Genome Sequencing * Futures studies * Futurology

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* Gene therapy ** Pharmacological Gene Therapy * Genetic code * Genetic engineering * Genetically modified organism * Genetics of aging * Genomics * Geriatrics * Geron Corp., Geron Corporation * Gerontology * Geroprotector * David Gobel, Gobel, David * Gompertz-Makeham law of mortality * Terry Grossman, Grossman, Terry * Growth hormone, Growth hormone (GH)

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* Denham Harman, Harman, Denham * Leonard Hayflick, Hayflick, Leonard * Hayflick limit * Health * Healthy diet * Healthy eating * Heart Disease * HeLa * Hormesis * Hormone replacement therapy (menopause), Hormone replacement therapy *

* Human enhancement * Human genetic engineering * Human Genome Project * Humanism * Hypoxia (medical), Hypoxia

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* Immortal DNA strand hypothesis * Immortality * Immortalist Society * Indefinite lifespan * Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

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* Saul Kent, Kent, Saul * Cynthia Kenyon, Kenyon, Cynthia * Tom Kirkwood, Kirkwood, Thomas * Klotho (biology), Klotho gene * Kübler-Ross model * Ray Kurzweil, Kurzweil, Ray

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* Henrietta Lacks, Lacks, Henrietta * Life expectancy * Life extension * Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach * Life Extension Advocacy Foundation * Life Extension Foundation * Life Extension Institute * Limits to Growth * Lipofuscin * List of long-living organisms * List of health and fitness magazines * Longevity * Longevity genes

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* Malthusian Catastrophe * Malthusian Growth Model * Malthusianism * Thomas Malthus, Malthus, Thomas * Maximum life span * Peter Medawar, Medawar, Peter * Megadose * Megadosing * Megavitamin therapy * Methuselah Foundation * Methuselah Mouse Prize * Mind transfer (mind uploading) * Mitohormesis * Molecular engineering * Molecular nanotechnology * Monoamine oxidase, Monoamine oxidase (MAO) * Morphological freedom * Mortality rate

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* Nanomedicine * Nanotechnology * National Institute on Aging * Neurite * Neurochemical * Neurodegenerative disease * Neuroendocrine theory of aging * Neurofibrillary tangle * Neurotrophic factor * Neurovitrification * Nootropic * Norepinephrine, Norepinephrin (noradrenaline) * NSAID * Nutrient * Nutrition * Nutritional supplement

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* Old age * Organ transplant * Orthomolecular medicine * Human overpopulation, Overpopulation * Oxidation (redox) * Oxidative stress

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* Paleolithic diet * Parkinson's disease * Patients' Bill of Rights * Linus Pauling, Pauling, Linus * Raymond Pearl, Pearl, Raymond * Durk Pearson, Pearson, Durk * Pharmacological Gene Therapy * Polyphenol antioxidant * Population control * Population growth * Population momentum * Posthuman * Predictive medicine * Pregnenolone * Prescription drugs (Prescription drug prices in the United States, prices in the US prices) * Prevention (magazine), Prevention Magazine * Prevention (medical), Prevention * Preventive medicine * Printable organs * Pro-aging trance * Procreative beneficence * Progeria * Programmed cell death ** Apoptosis (Type I cell death) ** Autophagy (''a.k.a.'' cytoplasmic, or Type II cell death)) * Programmed obsolescence ** Prostatitis * Pro-oxidant

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* Quercetin

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* Matthias Rath, Rath, Matthias * Raw foodism * Reactive oxygen species * Reliability theory * Reliability theory of aging * Redox (oxidation) * Reference Daily Intake * Regeneration (biology), Regeneration * Regenerative medicine * Rejuvenation (aging), Rejuvenation * Reliability theory of aging and longevity * Reprogenetics * Resveratrol * Michael Ristow, Ristow, Michael * RNA

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* Safety ** Occupational safety and health * SAGE KE * Senescence * Senility * Senolytic * SENS Foundation * Sandy Shaw (writer), Shaw, Sandy * Sierra Sciences * Sleep deprivation * Sports medicine * Stem cell * Stem cell treatments * Irwin Stone, Stone, Irwin * Strategies for engineered negligible senescence * Superoxide dismutase, Superoxide dismutase (SOD) * Superoxide

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* Technological determinism * Technological evolution * Technological singularity * Technology assessment * Techno-progressivism * Techno-utopianism * Telomere *

* Senescence#Theories of aging, Theories of aging ** Antagonistic pleiotropy theory of aging ** Evolution of ageing#Disposable soma theory, Disposable soma theory of aging ** Free-radical theory ** Glycation theory of aging ** Inflammation theory of aging ** Neuroendocrine theory of aging ** Order to disorder theory of aging ** Rate of living theory ** Reliability theory of aging and longevity ** Somatic mutation theory of aging * Peter Thiel, Thiel, Peter * Timeline of senescence research * Tissue engineering * Transhumanism

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* Unageing * Uniform Determination of Death Act * United States Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Research, Nutrition, and General Legislation

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* Vitamin * Cryopreservation#Vitrification

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* Roy Walford, Walford M.D., Dr. Roy Lee * August Weismann, Weismann, August * Werner syndrome * Michael D. West, West, Dr. Michael D. * George C. Williams (biologist), Williams, George C.

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* Xeroderma pigmentosum

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