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A Potential Decline in Life Expectancy in the United States in the 21st Century by Olshansky, S. Jay, Passaro, Douglas J, Hershow, Ronald C, Layden, Jennifer, Carnes, Bruce A, Brody, Jacob, Hayflick, Leonard, Butler, Robert N, Allison, David B, Ludwig, David S

“…For the past 100 years or so, there has been a general trend toward increasing life expectancy in developed countries. In this Special Report, the authors…”
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Inconvenient Truths About Human Longevity by Olshansky, S Jay, Carnes, Bruce A

“…Abstract The rise in human longevity is one of humanity’s crowning achievements. Although advances in public health beginning in the 19th century initiated the…”
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Differences in life expectancy due to race and educational differences are widening, and many may not catch up by Olshansky, S Jay, Antonucci, Toni, Berkman, Lisa, Binstock, Robert H, Boersch-Supan, Axel, Cacioppo, John T, Carnes, Bruce A, Carstensen, Laura L, Fried, Linda P, Goldman, Dana P, Jackson, James, Kohli, Martin, Rother, John, Zheng, Yuhui, Rowe, John

“…It has long been known that despite well-documented improvements in longevity for most Americans, alarming disparities persist among racial groups and between…”
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Impact of climate change on elder health by Carnes, Bruce A, Staats, David, Willcox, Bradley J

“…Demographers predict human life expectancy will continue to increase over the coming century. These forecasts are based on two critical assumptions: advances…”
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What is lifespan regulation and why does it exist? by Carnes, Bruce A.

“…The development of a unified conceptual framework for the field of biogerontology has been impeded by confusing and misleading terminology. Thus, distinctions…”
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Can Any Biomarker Predict the Temporal Behavior of Aging? by Carnes, Bruce A

“…Journals are filled with articles describing the creation of physiological biomarkers whose temporal behavior is attributed to aging. This paper explores…”
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How long must humans live? by Carnes, Bruce A, Witten, T M

“…Species are defined by biological criteria. This characterization, however, misses the most unique aspect of our species; namely, an ability to invent…”
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Ever Since Gompertz by Olshansky, S. Jay, Carnes, Bruce A.

“…In 1825 British actuary Benjamin Gompertz made a simple but important observation that a law of geometrical progression pervades large portions of different…”
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The Future of Smart Health by Olshansky, S. Jay, Carnes, Bruce A., Yang, Yang Claire, Miller, Norvell, Anderson, Janet, Beltran-Sanchez, Hiram, Ricanek, Karl

“…Longitudinal individual and crowdsourced health data from wearable sensors can be leveraged to increase the quality and length of life, giving rise to a new…”
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Cardiovascular effects of fission neutron or 60Co γ exposure in the B6CF1 mouse by Hoel, David G., Carnes, Bruce A.

“…In this study, the B6CF 1 mice from the JANUS program at the Argonne National Laboratory were analyzed for increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality…”
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Cardiovascular effects of fission neutron or 60 Co γ exposure in the B6CF 1 mouse by Hoel, David G, Carnes, Bruce A

“…In this study, the B6CF mice from the JANUS program at the Argonne National Laboratory were analyzed for increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality from…”
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In Search of Methuselah: Estimating the Upper Limits to Human Longevity by Olshansky, S. Jay, Carnes, Bruce A., Cassel, Christine

“…Estimates of the upper limits to human longevity have important policy implications that directly affect forecasts of life expectancy, active life expectancy,…”
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New model of health promotion and disease prevention for the 21st century by BUTLER, Robert

“…Butler et al argue that a concerted effort to slow aging would provide a broad strategy for primary prevention that would greatly enhance and accelerate…”
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Mortality of Atomic Bomb Survivors Predicted from Laboratory Animals by Carnes, Bruce A., Grahn, Douglas, Hoel, David

“…Carnes, B. A., Grahn, D. and Hoel, D. Mortality of Atomic Bomb Survivors Predicted from Laboratory Animals. Radiat. Res. 160, 159–167 (2003). Exposure,…”
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The delayed impact of parental age on offspring mortality in mice by Carnes, Bruce A, Riesch, Rüdiger, Schlupp, Ingo

“…The certitude of death makes reproduction the foundation upon which all life-history strategies are based. Plasticity in the reproductive biology of organisms…”
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Primary Prevention with a Capital P by Olshansky, S Jay, Carnes, Bruce A

“…The survival of large segments of human populations to advanced ages is a crowning achievement of improvements in public health and medicine, but in the 21st…”
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Senescence Viewed through the Lens of Comparative Biology by CARNES, BRUCE A.

“…:  Although mortality and longevity are inherently biological phenomena, their study has historically been the purview of demography and the actuarial…”
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Zeno's Paradox of Immortality by Olshansky, S Jay, Carnes, Bruce A

“…Scientists who speculate on the future of human longevity have a broad range of views ranging from the promise of immortality, to radical life extension, to…”
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A Realist View of Aging, Mortality, and Future Longevity by Carnes, Bruce A., Olshansky, S. Jay

“…Differences in methodology and philosophy have led scientists analyzing the same mortality data to arrive at very different conclusions about the behavior of…”
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Genetic Variation in the Raptor Gene Is Associated With Overweight But Not Hypertension in American Men of Japanese Ancestry by Morris, Brian J., Carnes, Bruce A., Chen, Randi, Donlon, Timothy A., He, Qimei, Grove, John S., Masaki, Kamal H., Elliott, Ayako, Willcox, Donald C., Allsopp, Richard, Willcox, Bradley J.

“…BACKGROUND The mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway is pivotal for cell growth. Regulatory associated protein of mTOR complex I (Raptor) is a unique…”
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