The Complexity of Biological Ageing
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Life usually ends with death, and ageing is defined here by the increase of the mortality rate with increasing age. Merryl Streep and Goldie Hawn showed in the movie “Death becomes her” the consequences of an elixir giving us eternal life. The present review instead deals with the consequences present foreseeable trends have on the demography of developed countries, and with the biological reasons of ageing.
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