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  • noun A subfield of gerontology that studies the biological processes of aging.

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bio- +‎ gerontology

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  • There is a new field called biogerontology (ph) and this is the study of the aging process especially at the cellular level, at the molecular level.

    CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2005 2005

  • With that in mind, FuturePundit Randall Parker comments on a recent essay by biogerenotolgist Aubrey de Grey which essentially tells us to stop apologizing for wanting to increase human lifespan: ...the purpose of biogerontology is, and should be declared to be, to defeat ageing. ...

    The Speculist: Carnival of Tomorrow 6.0 2005

  • With that in mind, FuturePundit Randall Parker comments on a recent essay by biogerenotolgist Aubrey de Grey which essentially tells us to stop apologizing for wanting to increase human lifespan: ...the purpose of biogerontology is, and should be declared to be, to defeat ageing. ...

    The Speculist: July 2005 Archives 2005

  • The topics will include: biogerontology news; advances in the field of life extension,

    blogger Jobs | Indeed.com 2010

  • The topics will include: biogerontology news; advances in the field of life extension,

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  • Yeast are an important model system in biogerontology, useful not only for genetic studies of longevity control but also for discovery of bioactive compounds.

    Ouroboros ouroboros 2010

  • BAAC is a meeting of local scientists working in biogerontology and related fields

    Fight Aging! Reason 2010

  • The topics will include: biogerontology news; advances in the field of life extension,

    blogger Jobs | Indeed.com 2010

  • The topics will include: biogerontology news; advances in the field of life extension,

    blogger Jobs | Indeed.com 2010

  • The topics will include: biogerontology news; advances in the field of life extension,

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  • But he has spent the past three years researching a book about biogerontology, the scientific study of ageing, in which he argues the case for a future in which our lives go on and on.

    Do we have to age? Alex Moshakis 2021

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  • Biomedical gerontology, also known as experimental gerontology and life extension, is a sub-discipline of biogerontology that endeavors to slow, prevent, and even reverse aging in both humans and animals. Most "life extensionists" believe the human life span can be increased within the next century, if not sooner. biogerontologists vary in the degree to which they focus on the study of the aging process as a means of mitigating the diseases of aging or extending lifespan, although most agree that extension of lifespan will necessarily flow from reductions in age-related disease and frailty, although some argue that maximum life span cannot be altered or that it is undesirable to try. The area of geroscience is a recently formulated interdisciplinary field that embraces biomedical gerontology as the center of preventing diseases of aging through science emerging at the interface of the biology of aging and age-related disease.

    September 14, 2018