title: Aging research-where do we stand and where are we going?
abstract: The 40(th) anniversary of Cell coincides with that of the National Institute on Aging (NIA). Indeed, Cell papers on NIA-funded research helped move the field into a genetic and molecular era. Now is a fair time to ask whether we are far down a trail leading to a deep understanding of aging or whether we are still tiptoeing cautiously at the trailhead.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for the Science of Aging, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Electronic address: leng@mit.edu.
authors.forename: Leonard
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Guarente
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D035843:Biomedical Research; D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy; D054561:National Institute on Aging (U.S.); D014481:United States