Human Ageing: A Unique Experience - Implications for the Disease Concept

by Michael A. Singer

Human Ageing: A Unique Experience explores the biology of human ageing focusing on the individual. The book begins with the premature ageing disorder Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome and spins a web of interconnected biological domains involving lamins, telomeres, alternative splicing, genetics, epigenetics, and molecular clocks. The profound influence of culture is explored since cultural inheritance and genetic inheritance are the two intertwined...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9814619124
• ISBN13: 9789814619127
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 8.5"