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Friday Jun 19 2009
The New York office of the International Longevity Center held their 10th annual Age Boom Academy earlier this month. Interesting tidbits picked up from this year's event include:
- According to George Martin, professor of pathology at the University of Washington's School of Medicine, a botanist defines aging as "everything that happens from the beginning of development until death" and a biologist defines it as "the decline that starts after organisms reach maturity".
- According to Steven Austad, a biology professor at the University of
Texas's Health Science Centre, researchers use tiny worms, fruit flies and mice for approximately 90% of aging research.
- According to Niz Barzilai, director of research at the Institute for Aging's Albert Einstein College of Medicine, only about one in 10,000 people lives to be a centenarian.
- According to John Rowe, professor of public health at Columbia University, an 'aging society' is one in which there are more old people than young.
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