National Institute on Aging Microarray Facility--Resources for Gerontology Research

The National Institute on Aging Health Disparities Research Framework.

OBJECTIVE Development of a new framework for the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to assess progress and opportunities toward stimulating and supporting rigorous research to address health disparities. DESIGN Portfolio review of NIA's health disparities research portfolio to evaluate NIA's progress in addressing priority health disparities areas. RESULTS The NIA Health Disparities Research...

Internet resources on aging: research.

The specific sites described in this column are used as examples only. The information about them is correct at the time this is written; it may have changed by the time this is published. The number of sites in aging is now close to 500, and it is not possible to mention all of them in this series of columns. For more comprehensive listings, use the 5th edition of "Internet and E-Mail Resource...

Of mice and monkeys: National Institute on Aging resources supporting the use of animal models in biogerontology research.

The preponderance of our understanding of the biological changes that occur with aging has come from studies using rodents. Rodents are a valuable model for biogerontology research because of similarities to humans in the physiology and cell biology of aging. There are, however, many differences between rodents and humans, so application of findings in rodents to human aging requires the use of...

National Institute on Drug Abuse RESEARCH MONOGRAPH

National institute on aging: new focus on growing old.

Though the leaves are many, the root is one; / Through all the lying days of my youth / I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; / Now I may wither into the truth.-W. B. YEATS, "The Coming of Wisdom with Time"