Capacity to enjoy longer life

Longer Life , Higher Welfare ?

Whereas life expectancy continues to increase in most industrialized countries many developing and transition countries are today confronted with decreases in life expectancy. Usual measures employed to compare welfare over time and space fail to deal with such demographic change and may lead to the so-called ‘repugnant’ conclusion that lower life expectancy involves higher welfare per capita. ...

Sex and the Longer Life

This is an important book less perhaps because of what it says than because it has been written at all. The fact of sexuality in old people is one which society, as Dr. Felstein points out, is always eager to sweep under the carpet; and Dr. Felstein readily admits that our impressions on this subject far outrun the area of factual knowledge. There are of course many 'resistances' to embarking o...

REGULATION: Cleaner Air, Longer Life

Nanotechnology, the engineering of func­ tional materials at an atomic or molecular scale, has been among the fastest growing fields of science and technology. Worldwide sales of products incorporating nanotechnolo­ gy are projected to total $2.6 trillion by 2014, according to a 2004 report from Lux Research titled Sizing Nanotechnology’s Value Chain. But with the increasing use of nano materia...

Procrastination Might Lead to a Longer and More Useful Life

Aging: Fruit Flies Break the Chain to a Longer Life

Mitochondria have long had an enigmatic role in the biology of aging. New research in Drosophila reveals an evolutionarily conserved function for the mitochondrial electron transport chain in the modulation of animal lifespan.