Biological immortality
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Biological immortality (sometimes referred to as bio-indefinite mortality) is a state in which the rate of mortality from senescence is stable or decreasing, thus decoupling it from chronological age. Various unicellular and multicellular species, including some vertebrates, achieve this state either throughout their existence or after living long enough. A biologically immortal living being can still die from means other than senescence, such as through injury, poison, disease, predation, lack of available resources, or changes to environment.
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See also
- Aging brain
- American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine
- Calico (company)
- Cryptobiosis
- DNA damage theory of aging
- Maximum life span
- Methuselah Foundation
- Reliability theory of aging and longevity
- Rejuvenation (aging)
- Strategies for engineered negligible senescence (SENS)
- Telomerase in cancer cell
- Timeline of senescence research
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