The Ageless Generation
How Advances in Biomedicine Will Transform the Global Economy
Language(s)
Englisch
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Published
2013
Pages
233
In the last 20 years, biomedical research has made hundreds of breakthroughs that are expected to extend the human lifespan beyond today's imaginable limits. However, many of these research results have not yet been incorporated into clinical practice and are also not yet generally known. Biomedicine will change our society forever by allowing people to live longer and work longer and contribute financially to the economy instead of retiring and burdening the economy through pensions and care benefits for seniors.
Old age will become a concept of the past, breakthroughs in regenerative medicine will continue, and an unprecedented upsurge in the global economy with an influx of older, able-bodied workers and consumers will become a reality.
Dr. Alex Zhavoronkov, a leading expert in the field of aging research, gives an overview of the progress that science has already made — from repairing tissue damage to cultivating functional organs from a single cell — and highlights the opportunities that the scientific and medical community will soon turn into reality. The Ageless Generation is a compelling work that encourages us to rethink our ideas of age and abilities in the modern world.