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The school offers two undergraduate degrees. The Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Aging has a health science track designed for students who wish to pursue medicine or other health-related fields and a social science track that focuses on human development via the behavioral sciences, designed for students pursuing law, policy, psychology, sociology, and health administration.
Longevity medicine is a set of preventive healthcare practices that rely on biomarkers of aging, such as aging clocks, to keep the patient's biological and psychological age as near to peak performance as feasible throughout life. [1] [2] Biogerontology and precision medicine are some of the related fields. [1]
A 2009 review of longevity research noted: "Extrapolation from worms to mammals is risky at best, and it cannot be assumed that interventions will result in comparable life extension factors. Longevity gains from dietary restriction, or from mutations studied previously, yield smaller benefits to Drosophila than to nematodes, and smaller still ...
The Buck Institute for Research on Aging [1] is an independent biomedical research institute that researches aging and age-related disease. [2] The mission of the Buck Institute is to extend the healthy years of life. The Buck Institute is one of nine centers for aging research of the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research. [3]
The officially reported deaths from COVID-19 pandemic in the worldwide has almost reached 6 million people. But according to the IHME, this analysis that the institute find the estimated number of excess deaths due to COVID-19 pandemic, started from Wednesday, January 1, 2020 to Friday, December 31, 2021, has reaching 18.3 million people with nearly three times higher over that period.
In 1983, he started the Colgan Institute, which is a consulting, educational, and research facility primarily concerned with the effects of nutrition and exercise on athletic performance, aging, and the prevention of degenerative disease. Colgan has served as a consultant to a number of international companies and government agencies.
Valter Longo is the Edna M. Jones Professor of Gerontology and Biological Sciences, as well as the director of the Longevity Institute at the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California, [12] and the Longevity and Cancer Program at the IFOM Institute of Molecular Oncology in Milan, Italy. [6] [10] [13]
The anti-aging movement is a social movement devoted to eliminating or reversing aging, or reducing the effects of it. [1] [2] A substantial portion of the attention of the movement is on the possibilities for life extension, but there is also interest in techniques such as cosmetic surgery which ameliorate the effects of aging rather than delay or defeat it.