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:From a biological perspective aging (senescence) appears to be a form of complex disease syndrome, though this is not the traditional view. This essay aims to foster a realistic understanding of aging by scrutinizing ideas old and new. The conceptual division between aging-related diseases and an underlying, non-pathological aging process underpins various erroneous traditional ideas about aging. Among biogerontologists, another likely error involves the aspiration to treat the entire aging process, which recent advances suggest is somewhat utopian. It also risks neglecting a more modest but realizable goal: to develop preventative treatments that partially protect against aging.
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Front Genetjournal_title
Frontiers in geneticsauthors
Gems Ddoi
10.3389/fgene.2015.00212subject
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2015-06-16 00:00:00pages
212issn
1664-8021journal_volume
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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