Debate on human aging and lifespan

The issue of human lifespan has long been a matter of controversy among scientists. In spite of the recent claim by Dong et al that human lifespan is limited to 115 years, with the mounting improvements in biotechnology and scientific understanding of aging, we may be confident that aging will slow...

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Autores principales: Rafi, Mohammad A., Alavi, Abass
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tabriz University of Medical Sciences 2017
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Editorial Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5684504/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29159140
http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/bi.2017.16
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spelling pubmed-56845042017-11-20 Debate on human aging and lifespan Rafi, Mohammad A. Alavi, Abass Bioimpacts Editorial Commentary The issue of human lifespan has long been a matter of controversy among scientists. In spite of the recent claim by Dong et al that human lifespan is limited to 115 years, with the mounting improvements in biotechnology and scientific understanding of aging, we may be confident that aging will slow down over the course of the current century extending human longevity much longer than 115 years. Tabriz University of Medical Sciences 2017 2017-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5684504/ /pubmed/29159140 http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/bi.2017.16 Text en © 2017 The Author(s) This work is published by BioImpacts as an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted, provided the original work is properly cited.
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