As part of Health Journalism 2009‘s “Biology of aging” panel, Peter Rabinovitch (M.D., Ph.D., director, University of Washington Nathan Shock Center for Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging) delivered a presentation titled “‘Wear and tear’ with aging: The free radical theory of aging.” Rabinovitch’s presentation laid out both sides of the discussion surrounding the free radical theory of aging, one of the oldest, most popular and most contentious fields in the study of aging.
