Ending Aging

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Ending Aging:
The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs that Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime
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Author Aubrey de Grey and Michael Rae
LanguageEnglish
Subject Life extension
Genre Transhumanism
Publisher St. Martin's Press
Publication date
September 2007;17 years ago (2007-09)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover/paperback), audiobook
Pages389/448
ISBN 978-0-312-36706-0
OCLC 132583222
612.6/8 22
LC Class QP85 .D348 2007

Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs that Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime is a 2007 book written by biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, with his research assistant Michael Rae. Ending Aging describes de Grey's proposal for eliminating aging as a cause of debilitation and death in humans, and restoring the body to an indefinitely youthful state, a project that he calls the "strategies for engineered negligible senescence" ("SENS"). De Grey argues that defeating aging is feasible, possibly within a few decades, and he outlines steps that can be taken to hasten the development of regenerative medicine treatments for each side of aging. [1]

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The book has not been officially translated into Russian, but there is an unofficial non-commercial fan translation named "Отменить Старение", which is distributed on the Internet in PDF format. [2]

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References

  1. Carlos López-Otín; Maria A. Blasco; Linda Partridge; Manuel Serrano; Guido Kroemer (2013-06-06). "The Hallmarks of Aging". Cell. 153 (6): 1194–1217. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2013.05.039. PMC   3836174 . PMID   23746838.
  2. "Вышла книга "Отменить старение" ( Ending Aging)" [The book "Отменить старение" was published.]. sciencevsaging.org (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2020-08-07. Retrieved 2021-03-27.

Other References

  • Klein, Julia M. (January 25, 2008). "Forever Young". Obit Magazine. Archived from the original on December 10, 2008. Retrieved March 20, 2009.