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<p><P>The conquest of aging is now within our grasp. It hasn't arrived yet, writes Michael R. Rose, but a scientific juggernaut has started rolling and is picking up speed. A long tomorrow is coming.<br> In <b>The Long Tomorrow</b>, Rose offers us a delightfully written account of the modern science of aging, spiced with intriguing stories of his own career and leavened with the author's engaging sense of humor and rare ability to make contemporary research understandable to nonscientists. The book ranges from Rose's first experiments while a graduate student&#151;counting a million fruit fly eggs, which took 3,000 hours over the course of a year&#151;to some of his key scientific discoveries. We see how some of his earliest experiments helped demonstrate that "the force of natural selection" was key to understanding the aging process&#151;a major breakthrough. Rose describes how he created the well-known Methuselah Flies, fruit flies that live far longer than average. Equally important, Rose surveys the entire field, offering colorful portraits of many leading scientists and shedding light on research findings from around the world. We learn that rodents given fifteen to forty per

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Author

Michael R. Rose

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190292553

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Family & Relationships, Medical