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Certain Medical Treatments Could One Day Slow Biological Aging

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The longer we live, the more likely we are to experience the decline and deficits of aging.

Some approaches to slowing the aging process are already in clinical trials.

Researchers are also working on interventions that can potentially rejuvenate aging cells.

It will take time for these approaches to work their way from the lab to clinical trials to our medicine cabinets.

Avery Hurt is a freelance science journalist.

She writes regularly for National Geographic, Science News Explores , Medscape, and WebMD.

She's the author of Bullet With Your Name on It: What You Will Probably Die From and What You Can Do About It, Clerisy Press 2007 .