Timeline of aging research
The species limit of human life is estimated by scientists at 125–127 years,[5][6] and even in the most ideal conditions a person will not live longer due to aging of the body.Some scientists believe that, even if medicine learns how to treat all major diseases, that will increase the average lifespan of people in developed countries by only about 10 years.Searches of various equivalents of the elixir of youth happened yet in ancient times: people hoped to find a miraculous remedy in faraway territories, tried to use magic and alchemy.From the end of the 19th century, systematic scientific and technical studies began on the processes of slowing down aging and possible rejuvenation.In many spheres of life, there were ideas that were radical-bold, but not always intelligent, ethical and moral from the point of view of modern knowledge, foundations and norms.
senescenceresearch and developmentrejuvenationHippocratesAphorismsAristotleOn youth and old agePersianIbn Sinaaverage lifespanTerentiaJeanne CalmentsupercentenariansLeonard Hayflicklife expectancyMonacobiomedical technologiesQin Shi Huangelixir of youthpills of immortalityWu of HanCaesar Augustuseternal youthalchemyphilosopher's stoneiatrochemistryParacelsusJan Baptist van HelmontFranciscus SylviuspharmacyFountain of YouthJuan Ponce de LeónVenetianLuigi CornaroGompertz–Makeham law of mortalityAlfred Russel WallaceAugust WeismannCharles-Édouard Brown-Séquardhormone replacement therapyIlya MechnikovyogurtbacteriaprobioticNobel PrizeLeo L. StanleyEugen SteinachvasectomysexologyAlexis CarrelanastomosisasepsisMathieu JaboulayEmerich UllmannJacques LoebJohn NorthropPorfiry Bakhmetievtissue engineeringcardiopulmonary bypassdialysisorgan donationcryobiologyLeo Leonidas StanleySerge/Samuel Voronoffsuspensionallotransplantationxenotransplantationsex hormonesestrogentestosteroneHeart of a DogThe Adventure of the Creeping ManIrving BerlinAlexander BogdanovInstitute for Blood TransfusionPaul NiehansWinston ChurchillCharles de GaullePope Pius XIIcell therapyregenerative medicineKishinevKingdom of RomaniaDimu KotsovskyRomanianClive McCaylabilepathophysiologistAlexander Bogomoletsantireticular cytotoxic serumLeipzigBritish Society for Research on AgeingVladimir KorenchevskyWorld War IIGerontological Society of AmericaInternational Association of Gerontology and GeriatricsPeter Medawarmutation accumulation theoryVladimir DilmanDenham Harmanfree-radical theory of agingRebeca GerschmanGeorge Williamsantagonistic pleiotropy hypothesisGioacchino FaillaDNA damageLeo SzilardDNA damage theory of agingsomatic cellsHayflick limitRoy WalfordNational Institute on AgingNational Archive of Computerized Data on AgingThomas Kirkwooddisposable soma theorytelomeraseribonucleoproteintelomeresElizabeth BlackburnCarol GreiderAlexey OlovnikovJack SzostakDemidov PrizeReliability theory of aging and longevityGerontology Research GroupCynthia KenyonC. elegans