1. Home
  2. Health
  3. Longevity
photo of Mark Stibich, Ph.D.
Longevity Blog

By Mark Stibich, Ph.D., About.com Guide to Longevity

Engineering Healthy Aging

Friday October 5, 2007
Aubrey de Grey is a researcher and thinker on aging. He has proposed a research agenda for discovering how to minimize the deterioration of the body over time (senescence). There seven steps include using exercise to help repair cells, searching for new enzymes and gene therapy.

These research items are interesting as they point out some of the directions that anti=aging science might take in the next decade. Check them out for some buzz-words that you might see soon.

SENS - Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence
Comments

No comments yet. Leave a Comment

Leave a Comment

Line and paragraph breaks are automatic. Some HTML allowed: <a href="" title="">, <b>, <i>, <strike>

Explore Longevity
About.com Special Features

Learn how you can reduce your your numbers with these nutrition and exercise tips. More >

Keep yourself, and your family, happy and healthy this fall with these tips. More >

  1. Home
  2. Health
  3. Longevity

©2009 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company.

All rights reserved.