Why we fall apart engineering's reliability theory explains human aging.

Why we fall apart engineering's reliability theory explains human aging.

The quest to understand and control aging has led two biologists to draw inspiration from what might seem an unlikely source: reliability engineering. The engineering approach to understanding aging is based on ideas, methods, and models borrowed from reliability theory. The theory is so general in...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE spectrum 41, 9 (2004).
Main Author: Gavrilov, L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Fault tolerance.
Hormesis effect.
Human aging.
Infant-mortality.
Life span.
Living organisms.
Mortality convergence.
Reliability engineering.
Reliability theory.
Self-repair mechanisms.