Longevity

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Death and taxes": a contrary view. 
  • "Predicting" parental longevity from offspring endophenotypes: data from the Long Life Family Study (LLFS). 
  • A 2-Year Randomized Controlled Trial of Human Caloric Restriction: Feasibility and Effects on Predictors of Health Span and Longevity. 
  • A Comparison Study of Vitamin D Deficiency among Older Adults in China and the United States. 
  • A Neutralizing IL-11 Antibody Improves Renal Function and Increases Lifespan in a Mouse Model of Alport Syndrome. 
  • A case-only approach for assessing gene by sex interaction in human longevity. 
  • A cell-nonautonomous mechanism of yeast chronological aging regulated by caloric restriction and one-carbon metabolism. 
  • A centenarian-only approach for assessing gene-gene interaction in human longevity. 
  • A comparison of 3% hypertonic saline and mannitol for brain relaxation during elective supratentorial brain tumor surgery. 
  • A comparison of perceived uselessness between centenarians and non-centenarians in China. 
  • A decrease in the dose of the lgl tumor suppressor increases life span of Drosophila in stress and is related to the maternal effect. 
  • A logistic regression model for measuring gene-longevity associations. 
  • A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies multiple longevity genes. 
  • A novel healthy blood pressure phenotype in the Long Life Family Study. 
  • A population study of Alzheimer's disease: findings from the Cache County Study on Memory, Health, and Aging. 
  • A stress-sensitive reporter predicts longevity in isogenic populations of Caenorhabditis elegans. 
  • APOE2 is associated with longevity independent of Alzheimer's disease. 
  • Accelerated accumulation of health deficits as a characteristic of aging. 
  • Accelerated reproduction is not an adaptive response to early-life adversity in wild baboons. 
  • Accuracy and Longevity of an Implantable Continuous Glucose Sensor in the PRECISE Study: A 180-Day, Prospective, Multicenter, Pivotal Trial. 
  • Acetate metabolism and aging: An emerging connection. 
  • Achieving healthy human longevity: A global grand challenge. 
  • Adiponectin preserves metabolic fitness during aging. 
  • Age influences domestic dog cognitive performance independent of average breed lifespan. 
  • Age, gender, and cancer but not neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases strongly modulate systemic effect of the Apolipoprotein E4 allele on lifespan. 
  • Age-dependent atrophy and microgravity travel: what do they have in common? 
  • Age-specific demographic profiles of longevity mutants in Caenorhabditis elegans show segmental effects. 
  • Age-specific mortality trends in France and Italy since 1900: period and cohort effects. 
  • Aging andlongevity: towards the next millennium. The Bat Sheva Le Rothschild International Seminar on Cellular, Molecular and Genetic Aspects of Aging and Longevity. Zichron Yaacov, Israel, 7-12 December 1997. 
  • Aging in the natural world: comparative data reveal similar mortality patterns across primates. 
  • An Optogenetic Method to Study Signal Transduction in Intestinal Stem Cell Homeostasis. 
  • An age-structured extension to the vectorial capacity model. 
  • An allele of HRAS1 3'variable number of tandem repeats is a frailty allele: implication for an evolutionarily-conserved pathway involved in longevity. 
  • An archival prospective study of mental health and longevity. 
  • Antiaging treatments have been legally prescribed for approximately thirty years. 
  • Anticipation of oxidative damage decelerates aging in virgin female medflies: hypothesis tested by statistical modeling. 
  • Are China's oldest-old living longer with less disability? A longitudinal modeling analysis of birth cohorts born 10 years apart. 
  • Assessing genetic association with human survival at multi-allelic loci. 
  • Association between APOE epsilon 2/epsilon 3/epsilon 4 polymorphism and disability severity in a national long-term care survey sample. 
  • Association between allostatic load and mortality among Chinese older adults: the Chinese Longitudinal Health and Longevity Study. 
  • Association between indoor ventilation frequency and cognitive function among community-dwelling older adults in China: results from the Chinese longitudinal healthy longevity survey. 
  • Association of Aging-Related Endophenotypes With Mortality in 2 Cohort Studies: the Long Life Family Study and the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study. 
  • Association of cognitive impairment and elderly mortality: differences between two cohorts ascertained 6-years apart in China. 
  • Association of heat shock proteins with all-cause mortality. 
  • Association of late childbearing with healthy longevity among the oldest-old in China. 
  • Association of mtDNA haplogroup F with healthy longevity in the female Chuang population, China. 
  • BMP signaling is required for controlling somatic stem cell self-renewal in the Drosophila ovary. 
  • Behavioral and Social Research to Accelerate the Geroscience Translation Agenda. 
  • Benefits of smoking cessation for longevity. 
  • Beta2-adrenergic receptor gene polymorphisms as systemic determinants of healthy aging in an evolutionary context. 
  • Biodemographic trajectories of longevity. 
  • Biogenetic mechanisms predisposing to complex phenotypes in parents may function differently in their children. 
  • Bisphosphonates and lifespan. 
  • Body weight is not always a good predictor of longevity in mice. 
  • Body-composition changes in the Comprehensive Assessment of Long-term Effects of Reducing Intake of Energy (CALERIE)-2 study: a 2-y randomized controlled trial of calorie restriction in nonobese humans. 
  • Bone marrow transplantation augments the effect of brain- and spinal cord-directed adeno-associated virus 2/5 gene therapy by altering inflammation in the murine model of globoid-cell leukodystrophy. 
  • Cancer patient preferences for quality and length of life. 
  • Cellular energetics and mitochondrial uncoupling in canine aging. 
  • Characteristics of Framingham offspring participants with long-lived parents. 
  • Child survival, height for age and household characteristics in Brazil. 
  • Childhood conscientiousness and longevity: health behaviors and cause of death. 
  • Childhood self-control forecasts the pace of midlife aging and preparedness for old age. 
  • Cold temperature improves mobility and survival in Drosophila models of autosomal-dominant hereditary spastic paraplegia (AD-HSP). 
  • Commentary: A testament to longevity. 
  • Common genetic variants of the β2-adrenergic receptor affect its translational efficiency and are associated with human longevity. 
  • Comparing Effects of FOXO3 and Residing in Urban Areas on Longevity: A Gene-Environment Interaction Study. 
  • Comparing personality scales across time: an illustrative study of validity and consistency in life-span archival data. 
  • Composite Measure of Physiological Dysregulation as a Predictor of Mortality: The Long Life Family Study. 
  • Correlated individual frailty: an advantageous approach to survival analysis of bivariate data. 
  • Creating a Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity. 
  • Cumulative deficits and physiological indices as predictors of mortality and long life. 
  • Cumulative early life adversity predicts longevity in wild baboons 
  • Cumulative index of elderly disorders and its dynamic contribution to mortality and longevity. 
  • Cumulative index of health deficiencies as a characteristic of long life. 
  • Cytochrome P4501A (CYP1A) in killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus): heritability of altered expression and relationship to survival in contaminated sediments. 
  • Cytomegalovirus as an immunomodulator across the lifespan. 
  • DNA methylation signatures of aggression and closely related constructs: A meta-analysis of epigenome-wide studies across the lifespan. 
  • Date of eclosion modulates longevity: insights across dietary-restriction gradients and female reproduction in the mexfly Anastrepha ludens. 
  • Decline in biological resilience as key manifestation of aging: Potential mechanisms and role in health and longevity. 
  • Decrease in the lgl tumor suppressor dose in Drosophila increases survival and longevity in stress conditions. 
  • Deficiency of the lipid synthesis enzyme, DGAT1, extends longevity in mice. 
  • Dementia: the leading predictor of death in a defined elderly population: the Cache County Study. 
  • Demographics, phenotypic health characteristics and genetic analysis of centenarians in China. 
  • Detection of hormesis effect in longevity: simulation approach for heterogeneous population. 
  • Diagnosis and treatment of hypothyroidism in the elderly. 
  • Dietary Restriction and AMPK Increase Lifespan via Mitochondrial Network and Peroxisome Remodeling. 
  • Differential effects of dietary caloric and protein restriction in the aging rat. 
  • Differential survival with Alzheimer disease. 
  • Direct and indirect effects of childhood conditions on survival and health among male and female elderly in China. 
  • Disruption of the Ang II type 1 receptor promotes longevity in mice. 
  • Distinct gene regulatory signatures of dominance rank and social bond strength in wild baboons. 
  • Distinct single amino acid replacements in the control of virulence regulator protein differentially impact streptococcal pathogenesis. 
  • Do gender, disability, and morbidity affect aging rate in the LLFS? Application of indices of cumulative deficits. 
  • Do non-scientists really live longer? 
  • Does childhood personality predict longevity? 
  • Does private religious activity prolong survival? A six-year follow-up study of 3,851 older adults. 
  • Dose-dependent effect of melatonin on life span and spontaneous tumor incidence in female SHR mice. 
  • Drosophila spastin regulates synaptic microtubule networks and is required for normal motor function. 
  • Dynamic paradigms for human mortality and aging. 
  • Effect of Calorie Restriction on Mood, Quality of Life, Sleep, and Sexual Function in Healthy Nonobese Adults: The CALERIE 2 Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effect of age of initiation of feed restriction on growth, body composition, and longevity of rats. 
  • Effect of delta-sleep inducing peptide-containing preparation Deltaran on biomarkers of aging, life span and spontaneous tumor incidence in female SHR mice. 
  • Effect of exposure to light-at-night on life span and spontaneous carcinogenesis in female CBA mice. 
  • Effect of neuronol on lifespan and development of spontaneous tumors in SAMP-1 mice with genetically accelerated aging. 
  • Effects of FOXO genotypes on longevity: a biodemographic analysis. 
  • Effects of caloric restriction on human physiological, psychological, and behavioral outcomes: highlights from CALERIE phase 2. 
  • Effects of medical research on health care and economy. 
  • Eliciting stated health preferences: an application to willingness to pay for longevity. 
  • Enabling Healthful Aging for All - The National Academy of Medicine Grand Challenge in Healthy Longevity. 
  • Estimating haplotype relative risks on human survival in population-based association studies. 
  • Evaluation of genotype-specific survival using joint analysis of genetic and non-genetic subsamples of longitudinal data. 
  • Evolutionary optimality applied to Drosophila experiments: hypothesis of constrained reproductive efficiency. 
  • Exogenous Hsp70 delays senescence and improves cognitive function in aging mice. 
  • Factors associated with consumption of alcohol in older adults - a comparison between two cultures, China and Norway: the CLHLS and the HUNT-study. 
  • Fertility/longevity trade-offs under limiting-male conditions in mating populations of Caenorhabditis elegans. 
  • Frailty and mortality among Chinese at advanced ages. 
  • Frailty and type of death among older adults in China: prospective cohort study. 
  • Gender-dependent association of body mass index and waist circumference with disability in the Chinese oldest old. 
  • Gene/longevity association studies at four autosomal loci (REN, THO, PARP, SOD2). 
  • Genes and longevity: lessons from studies of centenarians. 
  • Genes, demography, and life span: the contribution of demographic data in genetic studies on aging and longevity. 
  • Genetic analysis of durations: correlated frailty model applied to survival of Danish twins. 
  • Genetic and non-genetic factors associated with the phenotype of exceptional longevity & normal cognition. 
  • Genetic association of FOXO1A and FOXO3A with longevity trait in Han Chinese populations. 
  • Genetic correlates of longevity and selected age-related phenotypes: a genome-wide association study in the Framingham Study. 
  • Genetic dissection of late-life fertility in Caenorhabditis elegans. 
  • Genetic model for longitudinal studies of aging, health, and longevity and its potential application to incomplete data. 
  • Genetic signatures of exceptional longevity in humans. 
  • Genetics of Human Longevity From Incomplete Data: New Findings From the Long Life Family Study. 
  • Genome-wide association study identifies common loci influencing circulating glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels in non-diabetic subjects: the Long Life Family Study (LLFS). 
  • Genome-wide linkage analysis of carotid artery traits in exceptionally long-lived families. 
  • Genomewide Association Scan of a Mortality Associated Endophenotype for a Long and Healthy Life in the Long Life Family Study. 
  • Germline signaling mediates the synergistically prolonged longevity produced by double mutations in daf-2 and rsks-1 in C. elegans. 
  • Have the oldest old adults ever been frail in the past? A hypothesis that explains modern trends in survival. 
  • Health and function of participants in the Long Life Family Study: A comparison with other cohorts. 
  • Health consequences of familial longevity influence among the Chinese elderly. 
  • Health-related phenotypes and longevity in danish twins. 
  • Healthiness of survival and quality of death among oldest old in China using fuzzy sets. 
  • Heating stress patterns in Caenorhabditis elegans longevity and survivorship. 
  • Heritability estimates of endophenotypes of long and health life: the Long Life Family Study. 
  • Heritability of death from respiratory diseases: an analysis of Danish twin survival data using a correlated frailty model. 
  • Heterogeneity of healthy aging: comparing long-lived families across five healthy aging phenotypes of blood pressure, memory, pulmonary function, grip strength, and metabolism. 
  • Heterogeneity's ruses: some surprising effects of selection on population dynamics. 
  • High normal plasma triglycerides are associated with preserved cognitive function in Chinese oldest-old. 
  • High sensitivity C-reactive protein associated with different health predictors in middle-aged and oldest old Chinese. 
  • Higher dietary diversity scores and protein-rich food consumption were associated with lower risk of all-cause mortality in the oldest old. 
  • Home or nursing home: does place of residence affect longevity in patients with Alzheimer's disease? The experience of CERAD patients. 
  • Hormesis and debilitation effects in stress experiments using the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans: the model of balance between cell damage and HSP levels. 
  • Host longevity and parasite species richness in mammals. 
  • How frailty models can be used for evaluating longevity limits: taking advantage of an interdisciplinary approach. 
  • How genes influence life span: the biodemography of human survival. 
  • How heritable is individual susceptibility to death? The results of an analysis of survival data on Danish, Swedish and Finnish twins. 
  • How long can humans live? Lower bound for biological limit of human longevity calculated from Danish twin data using correlated frailty model. 
  • How long did their hearts go on? A Titanic study. 
  • How the analysis of genetic mutations can help us to solve basic problems in gerontology? I. Life extending genetic modifications in round worm C. elegans. 
  • How the analysis of genetic mutations can help us to solve basic problems in gerontology? II. Life extending genetic modifications in budding yeast S. cereviseae, fruit fly D. melanogaster and laboratory mice M. musculus. 
  • How the effects of aging and stresses of life are integrated in mortality rates: insights for genetic studies of human health and longevity. 
  • Hunter-gatherers as models in public health. 
  • Identification and replication of novel genetic variants of ABO gene to reduce the incidence of diseases and promote longevity by modulating lipid homeostasis. 
  • Identification of new genetic variants of HLA-DQB1 associated with human longevity and lipid homeostasis-a cross-sectional study in a Chinese population. 
  • Imaging genetics of brain longevity and mental wellness: the next frontier? 
  • Immune-endocrine biomarkers as predictors of frailty and mortality: a 10-year longitudinal study in community-dwelling older people. 
  • Impact of demography and population dynamics on the genetic architecture of human longevity. 
  • Implementation Research to Address the United States Health Disadvantage: Report of a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Workshop. 
  • Improving survival of octogenarian patients selected for haemodialysis. 
  • Income dividends and subjective survival in a Cherokee Indian cohort: a quasi-experiment. 
  • Individual fecundity and senescence in Drosophila and medfly. 
  • Individual-level factors attributable to urban-rural disparity in mortality among older adults in China. 
  • Influences of adversity across the lifespan on respiratory sinus arrhythmia during pregnancy. 
  • Insulin and longevity: antidiabetic biguanides as geroprotectors. 
  • Integrated genetic analyses revealed novel human longevity loci and reduced risks of multiple diseases in a cohort study of 15,651 Chinese individuals. 
  • Intelligence in early adulthood and life span up to 65 years later in male elderly twins. 
  • Inter-chromosomal level of genome organization and longevity-related phenotypes in humans. 
  • Interaction of Sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) candidate longevity gene and particulate matter (PM2.5) on all-cause mortality: a longitudinal cohort study in China. 
  • Is God good for your health? The role of spirituality in medical care. 
  • Is breast-feeding in infancy associated with adult longevity? 
  • Is early life body weight a predictor of longevity and tumor risk in rats? 
  • Joint influence of small-effect genetic variants on human longevity. 
  • Killing of Caenorhabditis elegans by Cryptococcus neoformans as a model of yeast pathogenesis. 
  • Letter to the editor: Standardization of genetic association studies, pros and cons, reaffirmed. 
  • Level and Change in N-Terminal Pro-B-Type Natriuretic Peptide and Kidney Function and Survival to Age 90. 
  • Lifetime Fitness in Wild Female Baboons: Trade-Offs and Individual Heterogeneity in Quality. 
  • Logistic regression models for polymorphic and antagonistic pleiotropic gene action on human aging and longevity. 
  • Long-term relations of personality and health: dynamisms, mechanisms, tropisms. 
  • Longevity and stress in Caenorhabditis elegans. 
  • Longevity in Abkhazia: a reevaluation. 
  • Longevity in military pilots: 37-year followup of the Navy's "1000 aviators". 
  • Longevity in the united states: age and sex-specific evidence on life span limits from mortality patterns 1960-1990. 
  • Longevity-Associated FOXO3 Genotype and its Impact on Coronary Artery Disease Mortality in Japanese, Whites, and Blacks: A Prospective Study of Three American Populations. 
  • Longevity-related molecular pathways are subject to midlife "switch" in humans. 
  • Longitudinal Associations of Mental Disorders With Physical Diseases and Mortality Among 2.3 Million New Zealand Citizens. 
  • Longitudinal changes in serum immunoglobulin levels in older humans. 
  • Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol was inversely associated with 3-year all-cause mortality among Chinese oldest old: data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey. 
  • Male/female ratio in centenarians: a possible role played by population genetic structure. 
  • Marital history at midlife as a predictor of longevity: alternative explanations to the protective effect of marriage. 
  • Maternal Diet and Insulin-Like Signaling Control Intergenerational Plasticity of Progeny Size and Starvation Resistance. 
  • Maternal death and offspring fitness in multiple wild primates. 
  • Measuring the genetic influence in modulating the human life span: gene-environment interaction and the sex-specific genetic effect. 
  • Melatonin increases both life span and tumor incidence in female CBA mice. 
  • Metabolic acceleration and the evolution of human brain size and life history. 
  • MicroRNA, the putative molecular control for mid-life decline. 
  • MicroRNAs both promote and antagonize longevity in C. elegans. 
  • Mitochondria in Ovarian Aging and Reproductive Longevity. 
  • Mitochondrial bioenergetic changes during development as an indicator of C. elegans health-span. 
  • More evidence for the benefits of cognitive activity over the lifespan. 
  • Mortality and religion/spirituality: a brief review of the research. 
  • Mortality model based on delays in progression of chronic diseases: alternative to cause elimination model. 
  • Mortality oscillations induced by periodic starvation alter sex-mortality differentials in Mediterranean fruit flies. 
  • Mortality patterns in developed countries. 
  • Mortality shifts in Caenorhabditis elegans: remembrance of conditions past. 
  • Mortality versus survival graphs: improving temporal consistency in perceptions of treatment effectiveness. 
  • Multiple mild heat-shocks decrease the Gompertz component of mortality in Caenorhabditis elegans. 
  • NIA Long Life Family Study: Objectives, Design, and Heritability of Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Phenotypes. 
  • Neuronal CRTC-1 governs systemic mitochondrial metabolism and lifespan via a catecholamine signal. 
  • Nonselective autophagy reduces mitochondrial content during starvation in Caenorhabditis elegans. 
  • Novel loci and pathways significantly associated with longevity. 
  • Objective and subjective financial status and mortality among older adults in China. 
  • On sexual dimorphism in immune function. 
  • Overexpression of a Drosophila homolog of apolipoprotein D leads to increased stress resistance and extended lifespan. 
  • Parasites and the evolutionary diversification of primate clades. 
  • Parental divorce: effects on individual behavior and longevity. 
  • Parrot Genomes and the Evolution of Heightened Longevity and Cognition. 
  • Patterns of Hybrid Seed Inviability in the Mimulus guttatus sp. Complex Reveal a Potential Role of Parental Conflict in Reproductive Isolation. 
  • Perceived social support as a predictor of mortality in coronary patients: effects of smoking, sedentary behavior, and depressive symptoms. 
  • Perceptual and conceptual processing of visual objects across the adult lifespan. 
  • Physical robustness and resilience among long-lived female siblings: a comparison with sporadic long-livers. 
  • Plasma 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentrations Are Inversely Associated with All-Cause Mortality among a Prospective Cohort of Chinese Adults Aged ≥80 Years. 
  • Playing with pets and longevity among older people. 
  • Plenary session on aging and biology: effects on growth and plasticity through the lifespan. Physical Disabilities through the Lifespan Conference. 
  • Polygenic effects of common single-nucleotide polymorphisms on life span: when association meets causality. 
  • Potential demographic contributions to gerontology. 
  • Predicting longevity in C. elegans: fertility, mobility and gene expression. 
  • Prediction of all-cause mortality by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Optimism-Pessimism Scale scores: study of a college sample during a 40-year follow-up period. 
  • Predictors of longevity: evidence from the oldest old in China. 
  • Predictors of the longevity difference: a 25-year follow-up. 
  • Preferences, beliefs, and self-management of diabetes. 
  • Preterm birth, long-term survival, and fertility. 
  • Prevalence, Incidence, and Risk Factors for Overall, Physical, and Cognitive Independence Among Those From Exceptionally Long-Lived Families: The Long Life Family Study. 
  • Primatology: "a faithful friend is the medicine of life". 
  • Protective role of the apolipoprotein E2 allele in age-related disease traits and survival: evidence from the Long Life Family Study. 
  • Psychosocial and behavioral predictors of longevity. The aging and death of the "termites". 
  • Puzzling role of genetic risk factors in human longevity: "risk alleles" as pro-longevity variants. 
  • Quantifying and Classifying Physical Resilience Among Older Adults: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study. 
  • REST and stress resistance in ageing and Alzheimer's disease. 
  • Recent advances in human gene-longevity association studies. 
  • Reduced life span with heart and muscle dysfunction in Drosophila sarcoglycan mutants. 
  • Relationships of cardiac, pulmonary, and muscle reserves and frailty to exercise capacity in older women. 
  • Replication studies in longevity: puzzling findings in Danish centenarians at the 3'APOB-VNTR locus. 
  • Representation of Older Adults in Cardiovascular Disease Trials Since the Inclusion Across the Lifespan Policy. 
  • Reproductive aging patterns in primates reveal that humans are distinct. 
  • Reproductive potential predicts longevity of female Mediterranean fruitflies. 
  • Resilience: Taking Its Measure Across the Life Span. 
  • Revisiting Successful Aging With HIV Through a Revised Biopsychosocial Model: An Update of the Literature. 
  • Risk factors for postoperative spinal wound infections after spinal decompression and fusion surgeries. 
  • Role of protein molecular and metabolic aberrations in aging, in the physiologic decline of the aged, and in age-associated diseases. 
  • SIRT3 regulates progression and development of diseases of aging. 
  • Science fact and the SENS agenda. What can we reasonably expect from ageing research? 
  • Serum Cholesterol Levels within the High Normal Range Are Associated with Better Cognitive Performance among Chinese Elderly. 
  • Sex Differences in Genetic Associations With Longevity. 
  • Should age be a basis for rationing health care? 
  • Social affiliation matters: both same-sex and opposite-sex relationships predict survival in wild female baboons. 
  • Social determinants of health and survival in humans and other animals. 
  • Sociodemographic and health correlates of sleep quality and duration among very old Chinese. 
  • Sociodemographic and psychosocial factors in childhood as predictors of adult mortality. 
  • Stress resistance declines with age: analysis of data from a survival experiment with Drosophila melanogaster. 
  • Stressors and antistressors: how do they influence life span in HER-2/neu transgenic mice? 
  • Survival after the age of 80 in the United States, Sweden, France, England, and Japan. 
  • Survival of related individuals: an extension of some fundamental results of heterogeneity analysis. 
  • Survival, disabilities in activities of daily living, and physical and cognitive functioning among the oldest-old in China: a cohort study. 
  • Surviving to 101: Exploring the miracle (and risks) of modern medicine. 
  • Targeting lifesaving: demographic linkages between population structure and life expectancy. 
  • Telomeres and the natural lifespan limit in humans. 
  • Ten dimensions of health and their relationships with overall self-reported health and survival in a predominately religiously active elderly population: the cache county memory study. 
  • The Association Between Lipoproteins, Disability, and Physical Function Among Older Costa Rican Adults. 
  • The CALERIE Study: design and methods of an innovative 25% caloric restriction intervention. 
  • The Development of Intermediate Clinical Endpoints in Cancer of the Prostate (ICECaP). 
  • The Georgia Centenarian Study. 
  • The Georgia Centenarian Study: comments from friends. 
  • The Survival of Spouses Marrying Into Longevity-Enriched Families. 
  • The U-shaped response of initial mortality in Caenorhabditis elegans to mild heat shock: does it explain recent trends in human mortality? 
  • The aging baboon: comparative demography in a non-human primate. 
  • The control of growth. 
  • The correlation of copy number variations with longevity in a genome-wide association study of Han Chinese. 
  • The emergence of longevous populations. 
  • The impact of diet switching on resource allocation to reproduction and longevity in Mediterranean fruitflies. 
  • The influence of dominance rank on the reproductive success of female chimpanzees. 
  • The influences on human longevity by HUMTHO1.STR polymorphism (Tyrosine Hydroxylase gene). A relative risk approach. 
  • The long lives of primates and the 'invariant rate of ageing' hypothesis. 
  • The longevity gap between Black and White men in the United States at the beginning and end of the 20th century. 
  • The quadratic hazard model for analyzing longitudinal data on aging, health, and the life span. 
  • The role of lipid-related genes, aging-related processes, and environment in healthspan. 
  • The second international conference "genetics of aging and longevity". 
  • The sirtuins, oxidative stress and aging: an emerging link. 
  • The western painted turtle genome, a model for the evolution of extreme physiological adaptations in a slowly evolving lineage. 
  • To grow or not to grow: nutritional control of development during Caenorhabditis elegans L1 arrest. 
  • Trade-off in the effects of the apolipoprotein E polymorphism on the ages at onset of CVD and cancer influences human lifespan. 
  • Trade-offs between cancer and other diseases: do they exist and influence longevity? 
  • Trajectories of cognitive function and their determinants in older people: 12 years of follow-up in the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey. 
  • Transgenerational Effects of Early Life Starvation on Growth, Reproduction, and Stress Resistance in Caenorhabditis elegans. 
  • Transgenerational Effects of Extended Dauer Diapause on Starvation Survival and Gene Expression Plasticity in Caenorhabditis elegans . 
  • Trust, health, and longevity. 
  • Use of isotonic contrast solution in the artificial urinary sphincter does not impact device longevity. 
  • Using hierarchical bayes to understand movement, health, and survival in the endangered north atlantic right whale. 
  • Variability of the SIRT3 gene, human silent information regulator Sir2 homologue, and survivorship in the elderly. 
  • Variations of cardiovascular disease associated genes exhibit sex-dependent influence on human longevity. 
  • Visualizing hidden heterogeneity in isogenic populations of C. elegans. 
  • Vitamin D Levels and the Risk of Cognitive Decline in Chinese Elderly People: the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey. 
  • Vitamin D levels and cognition in elderly adults in China. 
  • Voices: The Future of Metabolism. 
  • What evidence is there for the existence of individual genes with antagonistic pleiotropic effects? 
  • What fecundity patterns indicate about aging and longevity: insights from Drosophila studies. 
  • Where biodemographic theory and demographic data meet: a review of the Quest for Immortality (by Olshansky and Carnes). Essay review. 
  • Why the bigger live longer and travel farther: animals, vehicles, rivers and the winds. 
  • [A model of resource reallocation during physiological adaptation in Mediterranean fruit fly females] 
  • [Association between anemia and 3-year all-cause mortality among oldest old people in longevity areas in China]. 
  • [Association between serum albumin and cognitive performance in elderly Chinese]. 
  • [Investigation of disability prevalence in men and women of advanced age]. 
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  • Alberts, Susan C., Robert F. Durden Distinguished Professor of Biology, Duke Science & Society
  • Baugh, L. Ryan, Associate Professor of Biology, Biology
  • Doraiswamy, P. Murali, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Hirschey, Matthew, Associate Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
  • Thielman, Samuel B., Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry