Borrowed Time : The Science of How and Why We Age (Paperback)

Prologue Chapter 1: A question of definition Chapter 2: Wear and tear? Chapter 3: Telomeres: the ticking clock in our cells Chapter 4: down but not out: senescent cells Chapter 5: Old before their time Chapter 6: Ming the mollusc and other models Chapter 7: It's in the genes Chapter 8: Eat less; live longer Chapter 9: Epigenetics and stem cells Chapter 10: The ageing immune system Chapter 11: The sting in the tail of HIV/AIDS Chapter 12: The Big D - familial Alzheimer's disease Chapter 13: Broken brains Chapter 14: Turning back the clock