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life extension
(redirected from Lifespan extension)

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life extension
Etymology: AS, lif, life; L, extenere, to stretch out
the process of extending the life span of an individual or population by intervention that promotes better use of preventive medicine and use of established diagnostic and therapeutic facilities.


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It showed the largest proportional lifespan extension of any animal known at the time.
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the Herbert Boyer Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF, including the lifespan extension discoveries around the
 
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