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Organ-on-a-chip technology replicates decades of human aging in just four days

An array of microfluidic chips with circuit-like patterns on a metal wafer, illuminated in blue, pink, and yellow light.
A prototype wafer shows various configurations that the Stahl lab tested before settling on their current design. UC Berkeley photo by Mathew Burciaga

Over one billion people worldwide are over 60, and the population is projected to more than double by 2050. But as more people live into their 60s, 70s, and 80s, health care systems across the globe may face new challenges as they attempt to manage associated increases in age-related disease.

Metabolic biologist Andreas Stahl and preeminent longevity researcher Irina Conboy argue that the graying of the global population underscores the need to understand aging as a biological process, and how it might be slowed or reversed...

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