Geroscience
Geroscience is an interdisciplinary field that studies the biological mechanisms of aging, and how they causally drive chronic disease. Researchers at the Buck Institute coined the term around 2007. The NIH-led Geroscience Interest Group then formalized it. The core idea: if you target aging itself, you can delay many age-related conditions at once. That idea now underpins translational efforts like the TAME trial.
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