Convinced, however, that there was in fact «a hell of a field» to build around gerontological science, Finch has spent the past 3 decades at the University of Southern California's (USC's) Leonard Davis School of Gerontology in Los Angeles seeking to understand the genomic control of senescence in the brain. (sciencemag.org)
«While improvements may take time to manifest, and thus are more apparent at older ages, this could also signal problems for younger cohorts, particularly females, who — if their improvements are more minimal — may not see the same gains in life expectancy as experienced by the generations that came before them,» said Levine, who received both her PhD in Gerontology in 2015 and her BA in Psychology in 2008 from USC. (sciencedaily.com)
Much of Finch's persuasiveness stems from his talent for integrating the many different themes of gerontology research — from inflammatory brain processes to the biology of slowly aging creatures — into a sweeping view of the aging process. (sciencemag.org)