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Steven Austad Books

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_N._Austad
https://www.uab.edu/cas/biology/people/faculty/steven-n-austad
https://www.stevenaustad.com/
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biology

Methuselah's Zoo

what nature can teach us about living longer, healthier lives

2022 Beaverton Lib 571.879 AUS

Preface
pxii Joáo Pedro de Magalháes maintains website AnAge
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I. LONGEVITY IN THE AIR

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p076 n9 Large‐scale genome sampling reveals unique immunity and metabolic adaptations in bats 2011

II. LONGEVITY ON THE EARTH

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III. LONGEVITY IN THE SEA
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IV. HUMAN LONGEVITY
p245 ch14 The Human Longevity Story
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p269 ch15 Methuselah's Zoo Moving Forward
p272 one in ten cancer therapies effective in mice also effective in humans
p272 colleague won Nobel for the only part of his research rejected by a government review group
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p273 2012 Nobel Shina Yamanaka transformed skin/liver/blood/other cells into stem cells
p273 we can grow replacement human parts from our own cells
p274 treat aging itself as a disease
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How many atoms in human body?
- Total Earth biomass 550 GT carbon 5.5 x 1e2 x 1e9 x 1e6 (tonnes per gram) = 5.5e17 grams
- carbon is 12 amu and 12% of the atoms in human body
- Avogadro's number 6e23, hence one gram of human carbon is 5e22 atoms
- Associated with (100/12)*5e22 ≈ 4e21 total atoms per gram of human carbon
- Fermi estimate: Total Earth biomass 5.5e17 * 4e21 atoms = 2e39 biomass atoms if humans representative
- There are 1e22 to 1e24 stars in the universe
- Thousands of asteroids and trillions of comets and icy bodies orbit the Sun
- Perhaps 3e12 comets per star times 1e24 stars is 6e36 icy bodies in the universe, not counting unbound bodies
- that's a LOT of physics
- Both biology and physics are complicated ... or simple, if one is a simpleton

To Err Is Human, To Admit It Is Not and Other Essays

2022

Real People Don't Own Monkeys

2022

Why We Age: What Science Is Discovering about the Body's Journey Through Life

1999 Why We Age: What Science Is Discovering about the Body's Journey Through Life

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