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Review|Volume 2, Issue 3|pp 111—121

Impact papers on aging in 2009

Mikhail V. Blagosklonny1, Judy Campisi2, David A. Sinclair3, Andrzej Bartke4, Maria A. Blasco5, William M. Bonner6, Vilhelm A. Bohr7, Robert M. Brosh Jr7, Anne Brunet8, Ronald A. DePinho9, Lawrence A. Donehower10, Caleb E. Finch11, Toren Finkel12, Myriam Gorospe7, Andrei V. Gudkov1, Michael N. Hall13, Siegfried Hekimi14, Stephen L. Helfand15, Jan Karlseder16, Cynthia Kenyon17, Guido Kroemer18, Valter Longo11, Andre Nussenzweig6, Heinz D. Osiewacz19, Daniel S. Peeper20, Thomas A. Rando8, K Lenhard Rudolph21, Paolo Sassone-Corsi22, Manuel Serrano5, Norman E. Sharpless23, Vladimir P. Skulachev24, Jonathan L. Tilly25, John Tower11, Eric Verdin17, Jan Vijg26
  • 1Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA
  • 2Buck Institute for Age Research, Novato, CA, USA
  • 3Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
  • 4Southern Illinois University, Springfield, IL, USA
  • 5Spanish National Cancer Center, Madrid, Spain
  • 6National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
  • 7National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, MD, USA
  • 8Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
  • 9Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
  • 10Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
  • 11University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA
  • 12NHLBI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
  • 13University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  • 14McGill University, Montreal, Canada
  • 15Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
  • 16The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
  • 17University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • 18INSERM, U848, Villejuif, France
  • 19Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
  • 20The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 21Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany
  • 22University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
  • 23University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
  • 24Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
  • 25Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
  • 26Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, USA
Received: March 2, 2010Accepted: March 22, 2010Published: March 23, 2010

Copyright: © 2010 Blagosklonny et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract

The editorial board of Aging reviews research papers published in 2009, which they believe have or will have a significant impact on aging research. Among many others, the topics include genes that accelerate aging or in contrast promote longevity in model organisms, DNA damage responses and telomeres, molecular mechanisms of life span extension by calorie restriction and pharmacologic interventions into aging. The emerging message in 2009 is that aging is not random but determined by a genetically-regulated longevity network and can be decelerated both genetically and pharmacologically.