7.342 The Biology of Aging: Age-Related Diseases and Interventions, Fall 2011
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Lamming, Dudley W.; Bell, Eric L.
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The Biology of Aging: Age-Related Diseases and Interventions
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Aging involves an intrinsic and progressive decline in function that eventually will affect us all. While everyone is familiar with aging, many basic questions about aging are mysterious. Why are older people more likely to experience diseases like cancer, stroke, and neurodegenerative disorders? What changes happen at the molecular and cellular levels to cause the changes that we associate with old age? Is aging itself a disease, and can we successfully intervene in the aging process?This course is one of many Advanced Undergraduate Seminars offered by the Biology Department at MIT. These seminars are tailored for students with an interest in using primary research literature to discuss and learn about current biological research in a highly interactive setting. Many instructors of the Advanced Undergraduate Seminars are postdoctoral scientists with a strong interest in teaching.
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2011-12Other identifiers
7.342-Fall2011
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7.342
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Aging, age-related diseases, molecular biology of aging, calorie restriction, resveratrol, rapamycin, Caloric restriction (CR), Cellular senescence, telomerase, progeroid syndromes, mitochondrial DNA, yeast, C. elegans, Drosophila, Sirtuins, SIR4, target of rapamycin (TOR), oxidative damage, Reactive oxygen species (ROS), National Institute on Aging Interventions Testing Program, Alzheimer’s disease
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