Reply to Mitteldorf and Fahy: Aging is still inevitable

Reply to “Triclocarban and Health: the Jury Is Still Out”

Lauren Pischel,a Angela C. Poole,b,d Catherine Ley,a Gina Suh,a Julia K. Goodrich,b Thomas D. Haggerty,a Ruth E. Ley,b,d Julie Parsonnet,a,c Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USAa; Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USAb; Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Me...

Aging and Osteoarthritis: An Inevitable Encounter?

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a major health burden of our time. Age is the most prominent risk factor for the development and progression of OA. The mechanistic influence of aging on OA has different facets. On a molecular level, matrix proteins such as collagen or proteoglycans are modified, which alters cartilage function. Collagen cross-linking within the bone results in impaired plasticity and in...

Why the HADS is still important: reply to Coyne & van Sonderen.

Still not enough taxonomists: reply to Joppa et al.

Taxonomists are people who describe species. This work is essential for the conservation of biodiversity and for estimating how many species there are left to be discovered, the so-called missing species [1]. However, it has been claimed the science of taxonomy is in crisis [2] because researchers are afraid that the number of people describing new species is in decline [3,4]. In a recent lette...

Is human aging still mysterious enough to be left only to scientists?

The feasibility of reversing human aging within a matter of decades has traditionally been dismissed by all professional biogerontologists, on the grounds that not only is aging still poorly understood, but also many of those aspects that we do understand are not reversible by any current or foreseeable therapeutic regimen. This broad consensus has recently been challenged by the publication, b...