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[gavrilov]

Dear All,

As you may know, the "Scientific American" journal is very keen to publish stories about aging & longevity research, and the same is true for the Russian version of this journal named "In The World of Science":

http://www.sciam.ru/

This month they have published a new story "Who Will Live A Long Life":

http://www.sciam.ru/article/5277
and
http://longevity-stu...l.com/3609.html

English translation of this story could be obtained through Google computer translator at:

http://translate.goo...history_state0=
Shorter weblink:
http://tinyurl.com/mocyny

Hope it helps,

Kind regards,

-- Leonid


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-- Leonid Gavrilov, Ph.D.
Center on Aging, NORC/University of Chicago
Website: http://longevity-science.org/
Blog: http://longevity-science.blogspot.com/
My books: http://longevity-sci....org/Books.html

[gavrilov]

Interestingly, this published story ends with the following statement:

"...aging is a summary term for a set of different processes contributing to the destruction of organism with age. In other words, any process contributing to age-related deterioration is a component of the aging process. Scientific community needs to develop a consensus on what aging is. For this purpose a systems approach could be a useful, based on the principles of reliability theory. If scientists agree on common definition of aging, they could better cooperate in developing anti-aging research program, such as, for example, the "Science Against Aging" program, which was suggested recently by the International Foundation "Science for Life Extension." Open discussions on this topic are very much needed, which have already started at our blog Longevity Science ( http://longevity-sci...logspot.com/)."


An ongoing discussion (8 comments) mentioned there, could be also seen at:

https://www.blogger....204050056439818

Hope it helps,

.

Edited by gavrilov, 24 August 2009 - 10:45 PM.

[brokenportal]

Interesting, and Ill get that topic in to the internetworking team.

I assume that the Science for Life Extension Foundation is another place like A4M that is more for the compression of morbity than anything. We really should work on some projects for targeting places like them though. We target a variety of places, VIP's, science forums, etc.. but we dont have anything going to specifically try to merge more with compression of morbity sites around here that I know of.

Any ideas on that anybody?

[Anthony]

Interesting, and Ill get that topic in to the internetworking team.

I assume that the Science for Life Extension Foundation is another place like A4M that is more for the compression of morbity than anything. We really should work on some projects for targeting places like them though. We target a variety of places, VIP's, science forums, etc.. but we dont have anything going to specifically try to merge more with compression of morbity sites around here that I know of.

Any ideas on that anybody?

I only have a second--have to leave in a bit, so I apologize in advance for the sloppy grammar--but I think it is still legible...I would suggest looking at synergies between the healthy life extension groups and the compression of morbidity groups. For instance, everyone who ascribes to one of those two philosophies, wants to increase health span via slowing or reversing some aspects of the aging process. They differ as to how far they want to take it as well as to what they think society can accomplish in the next few decades. Given, that, are there any issues on which we (advocates for healthy life span extension as well as supporters of compression of morbidity) can all agree on? For instance, while we might not agree on what types of gerontology initiatives should receive funding, most of us would likely concur that it would be a good thing if the NIA could obtain more money, etc...In other words, try to locate the synergies.

Edited by Anthony, 24 September 2009 - 11:56 AM.