Aging remains the most pervasive risk factor for a wide range of chronic diseases that afflict
modern societies. In the United States alone, incidence of age-related diseases (eg …

Population aging is unprecedented, without parallel in human history, and the 21st century
will witness even more rapid aging than did the century just past. Improvements in public …

Geroscience is a new field that aims to bridge two communities: biologists focused on
understanding the basic mechanisms that drive aging, and geriatricians attempting to …

Research on the biology of aging has accelerated rapidly in the last two decades. It is now at
the point where translation of the findings into useful approaches to improve the health of the …

Age is the greatest risk factor for nearly every major cause of mortality in developed nations.
Despite this, most biomedical research focuses on individual disease processes without …

Age is by far the major risk factor for most chronic diseases. This has been common
knowledge since time immemorial. Aging encompasses the biological changes most often …

In 1863, Rudolph Virchow published “Cellular Pathology as Based upon Physiological and
Pathological Histology,” establishing for the first time that cellular pathology was tightly …

Research into the basic biology of aging has undergone a seismic shift in the last 10–20
years, moving rapidly from the very descriptive approach focused on the aged that was the …

Improvements in public health and health care have resulted in significant increases in
lifespan globally, but also in a significant increase in chronic disease prevalence. This has …

After careful deliberation, the American Aging Association (AAA) has decided to change the
title of its journal from AGE to GeroScience, effective January 2017. This title change is …