Why we age

Chapter 4 of Ageless: The new science of getting older without getting old

This is a list of references from Chapter 4, in alphabetical order of first author’s surname, or title where there is no author. Note that this isn’t the order they appear in the book.

  1. Simon, Hollander and McMichael 2015
  2. Anderson, Richardson and Passos 2018
  3. Aune et al. 2017
  4. Bast et al. 2018
  5. Bell et al. 2019
  6. Buford 2017
  7. Carmona-Gutierrez et al. 2016
  8. Chen et al. 2016
  9. Clevers et al. 2017
  10. Comfort 1956
  11. de Grey et al. 2002
  12. de Grey and Rae 2008
  13. Extance 2018
  14. Franceschi and Campisi 2014
  15. Francis 2018
  16. Freitas and Magalhães 2011
  17. Frenk and Houseley 2018
  18. Galkin et al. 2018
  19. Garinis et al. 2008
  20. Gems and Partridge 2013
  21. Gibbs 2014
  22. Hahn and Zuryn 2019
  23. Heart Project
  24. Horvath 2013
  25. Infante and Rodrı́guez 2018
  26. Jaskelioff et al. 2011
  27. Kimura et al. 2008
  28. Klenerman and Oxenius 2016
  29. Knowles, Vendruscolo and Dobson 2014
  30. Kowald and Kirkwood 2018
  31. López-Otı́n et al. 2013
  32. Laconi, Marongiu and DeGregori 2020
  33. Lane 2006
  34. Leidal, Levine and Debnath 2018
  35. Levine 1997
  36. Maynard and Weinkove 2018
  37. Medvedev 1990
  38. Moreno-Garcı́a et al. 2018
  39. Nobel Prize 2016
  40. Old and Calvert 2004
  41. Palmer et al. 2018
  42. Pinto and Moraes 2015
  43. Rasko and Power 2015
  44. Rode, Nordestgaard and Bojesen 2015
  45. Rubinsztein, Mariño and Kroemer 2011
  46. Scott and Youle 2010
  47. Seidel and Valenzano 2018
  48. Sender, Fuchs and Milo 2016
  49. SENS Research Foundation’s Introduction to SENS research
  50. Shay and Wright 2000
  51. Singh et al. 2018
  52. Stebegg et al. 2019
  53. Toyama et al. 2013
  54. Victorelli and Passos 2017
  55. Weyand and Goronzy 2016
  56. Xu et al. 2018
  57. Yeh et al. 2020
  58. Zealley and Grey 2013
  59. Zhang and Zhang 2009

Own calculations

  1. Deaths from infectious diseases by age
  2. Light-years of DNA